单词 | manumit |
释义 | manumitn. Misprint for manumitted arising from compositorial transposition of suffixes in manumitted servants, formerly explained as ‘a freed bondman’ and tentatively derived from manumitt, an unattested past participial form of manumit v. The text is correct in earlier editions of Sandys. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery > freedman libertinec1384 freedman1587 manumit1637 manumiss1658 neodamode1808 recaptive1832 1637 G. Sandys Relation of Journey (ed. 4) 276 Effected by the labor of twenty thousand manumitts servanted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). manumitv. Now chiefly historical. 1. a. transitive. To release (a person) from slavery, bondage, or servitude; to set free. Also intransitive: to obtain one's release from slavery, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from slavery manumitc1455 manumise1523 enfranchise1531 enfranch1581 unthrallc1595 unslavea1618 disenthral1636 unenslave1644 disenslave1649 c1455 Regiam Majestatem c. 47 Fra he be manumittyt he is deliueryt & fra the hand & the pouste of his lorde. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 283 Kenulphus..manumitte [L. manumisit] this kynge at the hie awter. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 23 One of the Erles of Cornewalle hering them secretely to lament their state manumittid them for Mony. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes v. f. 196 If the testator do make his owne villeine executor, he doth manumit..his villeine from bondage. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 108 Christian masters were not bound to manumit their slaves. 1716 in Mass. House of Representatives Jrnl. (1919) I. 135 It cannot be supposed, that he is Manumitted, by his Master, to avoid Charge in supporting him. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 514 The clergy..manumitted their new vassals. 1845 E. A. Poe Gold-bug in Tales 2 An old negro, called Jupiter, who had been manumitted before the reverses of the family. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 15 It is not every man who pleases that can manumit. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind i. iii. 49 Old Angus had never manumitted a single slave. 1985 A. Carter Black Venus 16 African mistresses of French residents were often manumitted. 1995 B. Golding Gilbert of Sempringham viii. 415 Reginald of Snainton..was manumitted and provided with a toft to hold for life. b. transitive. In extended use. ΚΠ 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. I2v My hand and my knife shall manumit mee out of the horrour of minde I endure. 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 66 Come, manumit thy plumie pinion, And scower the sword of Eluish champion. 1644 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal First Six Satyrs vi. 523 The Matron of the wheele in councell sits, Whose needle now her Lady manumits. 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 27 Striplings..which have but lately been manumitted from the rod and ferula. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 38 Happy Day! that breaks our Chain; That manumits; that calls from Exile home. 1877 W. Sparrow Serm. iv. 43 A bondage to Satan, from which none can manumit us but the Son. a1959 E. Muir Coll. Poems (1984) 267 We the deprived and uncommitted..Who could not even be manumitted Because no one could see or touch Our fetters locked so far within. 1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 197 The determined moth which contrives to manumit its body from the caterpillar. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (transitive)] > confer degree on grade1563 commence1567 grace1573 graduate1588 manumise1619 laureate1637 manumita1662 degree1865 cap1881 a1662 T. Craufurd Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1808) 65 The 20th class..were manumitted with the magisteriall dignity, some 27 in number. a1662 T. Craufurd Acct. Univ. Edinb. f. 126 The 47th class..were solemnly manumitted in the lower hall of the Colledge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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