The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manumit \Man`u*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manumitted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Manumitting.] [L. manumittere, manumissum; manus the
hand + mittere to send, to send off. See Manual, and
Missile.]
To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or
servitude; to free, as a slave. ``Manumitted slaves.''
--Hume.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: manumit)
WordNet
v. free from slavery or servitude [syn: emancipate]
[also: manumitting, manumitted]
See manumit
Usage examples of "manumitted".
But the German nations, and those descended from them, are not the only people who manumitted their bondmen, and yet they are the only people that established patrimonial jurisdictions.
In addition to this new law, and the consul's edict enforcing it, a resolution was passed by the senate ordering that whenever any one of them was manumitted and publicly declared to be free, the dictator, consul, interrex, censor or praetor for the time being should put the manumitter on his oath that he was not doing it for the purpose of altering his citizenship.