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unˈmanacle, v.
[un-2 4 b.]
trans. To free from manacles. Also fig.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 48 This sayd, my yooncker..Too stars vp mounting both his hands vnmannacled [L. exutasvinclis], aunswer'd. c1629Donne Serm (1640) 601 We shall see the Church emancipated, enfranchised, unfettered, unmanacled. 1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 24 Stretch forth thy right hand: unmanacle him Vulcan, and nail him. 1833Tennyson Two Voices 236 This anguish fleeting hence, Unmanacled from bonds of sense. 1866Neale Sequences & Hymns 153 While..they unmanacled cold hands and numbed feet. 1889G. Smith St. Paul at Sea ii, Caesar and slave alike must be Unmanacled by me.
Hence unˈmanacling vbl. n.
1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory 208 That Death to the just is no other than..the unmanacling of the Soule. |