manumittern.

1774 R. Warner tr. Plautus Persian iii. iii, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies V. 141 Let me recover breath to answer you—Dregs of the rabble, and for worn out wenches Thou stable, and of punks thou manumitter, Of scourges thou consumer.

1865 J. B. Mozley 8 Lect. Miracles vii. 145 The Church was the great manumitter and improver of the condition of the serf.

1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 601 The manumitter was entitled to deal with it testamentarily as part of his own estate.

1907 Polit. Sci. Q. 22 665 The second and third articles were framed from the point of view of those who had no trace of servile blood in their veins, in order to exclude from gentile association with themselves their libertini and the descendants of the latter, who often bore the gentilicium of the manumitter.

1928 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 13 74 No slave was to be manumitted without the manumitter or his executors..giving a bond of £200 to pay the manumitted, £20 a year for life.

1990 Jrnl. Semitic Stud. 35 ii. 327 This mechanism created a relationship of dependence between an Arab manumitter and his freedman and it was essentially the price paid by a non-Arab for admission to Muslim society.