manumit

man·u·mit

transitive verb

-·mit′ted, -·mit′ting

to free from slavery; emancipate (a slave, serf, etc.)

Origin of manumit

Middle English manumitten from Old French manumitter from Classical Latin manumittere, literally , to let go from the hand, free from manu, ablative of manus, a hand (see manual) + mittere, to send: see mission

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manumit

transitive verb

man·u·mit·ted, man·u·mit·ting, man·u·mits

To free from slavery or bondage; emancipate.

Origin of manumit

Middle English manumitten from Old French manumitter from Latin manūmittere manū ablative of manus hand ; see man-² in Indo-European roots. mittere to send from

Related Forms:

man′u·mis′sion
noun

man′u·mit′ter
noun

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present manumits, present participle manumitting, simple past and past participle manumitted)

To release from slavery, to free.

Related terms

manumission

Origin

From Latin manumittere, from pre-Classical Latin manu emittere, literally "˜send out from one's hand'.

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His earliest legislative effort, in the five-day session of 1769, had been marked by an effort to secure to masters freedom to manumit their slaves without removing them from the state.
In 1788 he was a member of the state convention which ratified the Federal constitution for Maryland, in1788-1792and in 1795 of the House of Delegates (where in 1788 and 1789 he defended the right of slave-owners to manumit their slaves), and in1792-1795of the state executive council.

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