Meanings
verbmancipate (third-person singular simple present mancipates, present participle mancipating, simple past and past participle mancipated)
present singular third person mancipates · participle present mancipating · participle past mancipated · past mancipated
- obsoletetransitiveTo enslave.
Lastly, that he was resolved to eat coals before he would mancipate himself to the French nation, or sell himself for any rewards, which he rejected with more magnificence than they were offered; […]
1754, Thomas Birch, Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth - historicaltransitiveTo transfer (property) by mancipation (simulated purchase).
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