单词 | manumission |
释义 | manumissionn. Now historical. 1. a. The action of manumitting a slave; the fact of being manumitted; formal release from slavery or servitude; an act or instance of this. charter (also deed, letter, writ) of manumission n. a written grant of personal freedom by a feudal superior. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery deliberationa1425 manumission1452 mainmission?a1534 manumising1579 disenthraldom1823 disenthralmenta1854 1452 in A. Clark Lincoln Diocese Documents (1914) 62 I wol that al those persones to whom I have graunted any manumyssion..reioyse theire..fredom for euermore. ?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 459 (MED) Þe letters of manimission whom the kynge had grauntede to theyme were publischede. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xiii. f. 26 Many noble men..haue made to dyuers of the sayd bonde men manumissions. a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 125 That great Charter of the liberties of England, which I may call the first Letters of Manumission of the people of this Realme. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. §204. 137 Manumission is properly when the Lord makes a deed to his villeine to enfranchise him by this word (Manumittere) which is the same as to put him out of the hands and power of another. 1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts Epil., sig. M2v Nor we, Nor he that wrot the Comedie can be free Without your Mannumission. a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 480 Lister sends on Embassy..the Lord Morley..to obtain Charters of Manumission, and Pardon. 1671 in Arch. Maryland (1884) II. 272 Where any Negro or Negroes Slave or Slaues being in Servitude or bondage..shall become Christian..the same..shall [not be]..taken to be..a manumicion or..discharging any such..Slave or Slaues. 1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) i. iii. v. 244 Servants in the Saxons times were properly Slaves, and very many Instances of their Manumissions are still extant. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. vi. 94 Villeins might be enfranchised by manumission, which is either express or implied: express, as where a man granted to the villein a deed of manumission. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 231 Societies for the manumission of slaves. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vii. 81 The writ of manumission, signed By God's own signature. 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. x. 76 He had been no Old Bailey lawyer, devoting himself to the manumission of murderers. 1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 97 When the manumission papers came, Katherine sent LeRoy..to tell the negroes to come to the ‘big house’. 1964 M. L. King Why we can't Wait viii. 126 The hard-earned dollars were paid to the slaveowner in exchange for a legal instrument of manumission which declared its holder relieved of the bondage of physical slavery. 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness ii. ix. 211 It was held that the insecurity and uncertainty of slavery marked a person from birth or from the moment of captivity, in such a way that manumission was actually cruelty masquerading as kindness. b. In extended use. ΚΠ a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) 6408 (MED) Crist..sched his blode..and suche a manumissioun made. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Tim. vi. f. xviv They are set at lybertye by manumission from the lordeshyp of synne. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xix. 45 Languages by a regardles adoption of som new words, and manumission of old do often vary. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xxiii. 204 What a charming subject for conversation would be the..last partings between man and wife... Each..rejoicing secretly in the manumission, could afford to be complaisantly-sorrowful in appearance. 1781 S. Johnson Addison in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets V. 86 It is not unlikely that Addison was first seduced to excess by the manumission which he obtained from the servile timidity of his sober hours. 1844 E. B. Browning Vision of Poets 149 In that kiss of Love, was won Life's manumission. 1908 G. C. Lodge Herakles 199 That work there is to do..By which alone the soul exactly gains Mastery and manumission after all. 1971 ELH 38 267 The freedom the young man [sc. Gibbon] desired has been achieved..from his history—the deliverance of it is metaphorically not only a birth, but Clio's manumission. 1994 Harper's Mag. May 30/2 Preferring to take one's vacation in Italy rather than in the Black Forest offers some degree of manumission from the sin of being German. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [noun] > elementary teaching or initiation introductionc1430 induction1526 entrance1571 initiation1583 manumission1596 groundinga1656 initiating1750 breaking-in1843 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. K4v Vpon his first manumission in the mysterie of Logique, because he obseru'd Ergo was the..driu'n home stab of the Syllogisme, hee [etc.]. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] commencementa1387 proceeding1479 act1587 commencing1588 graduationa1639 manumissiona1662 determination1665 determining1675 inceptionc1680 bachelorizinga1739 post-graduation1920 a1662 T. Craufurd Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1808) 62 The Primar calling the candidates before him..performeth the ceremony, by imposition of an bonnet (the badge of manumission) upon the head of every one of the candidats. 1670 Rec. Inverness in W. Mackay Rec. Presbyteries Inverness & Dingwall (1896) 3 He had improved his time since his manumission and graduation in the Colledge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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