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English
Verb
manumise (third-person singular simple present manumises, present participle manumising, simple past and past participle manumised)
- (transitive, obsolete) To manumit.
1523, John Fitzherbert, chapter 13, in The Book of Surveying and Improvements, London: Richard Pynson:[…] 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
1693, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden, transl., “ The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. , London: Printed for Jacob Tonson , →OCLC, page 40, lines 208–210: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.
1812, Robert Southey, Omniana; or, Horæ Otiosiores, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Volume 1, section 160, pp. 321-322:Neither is it uncommon for the men slaves to purchase and manumize their wives, and vice versa, the wives their husbands.