manumise

present singular third person manumises · participle present manumising · participle past manumised · past manumised · alternative manumize

1. obsoletetransitiveTo manumit.First known use 16th to early 19th c.

   1612, John Davies, The Muses Sacrifice, London: George Norton, “A sicke Mindes Potion for all in Tribulation in Body,” p. 134, from death, made free; / And, manumiz’d from this Worlds mortall woes

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   […] it were a charytable dede to euery noble man […] to manumise them that be bonde and to make them free of body and blode

   1523, John Fitzherbert, chapter 13, in The Book of Surveying and Improvements, London: Richard Pynson

   Our Dear departed Brother lies in State; / His Heels ſtretch'd out, and pointing to the Gate: / And Slaves, novv manumis'd, on their dead Maſter vvait.

   1693, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 40, lines 208–210

   Neither is it uncommon for the men slaves to purchase and manumize their wives, and vice versa, the wives their husbands.

   1812, Robert Southey, Omniana; or, Horæ Otiosiores, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Volume 1, section 160, pp. 321-322