Meaning of manumise | Babel Free

Definitions

To manumit.

obsolete, transitive

Examples

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

“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”

“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.”

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

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