单词 | manumitting |
释义 | manumittingadj. Now historical. That manumits a slave, bondsman, etc.; causing or signifying manumission. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > relating to manumission > manumitting manumitting1616 1616 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. v. 214 Knowst thou no other Master, but he whom The Manumitting rod did free thee from? 1693 W. Bowles tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires v. 82 At last thou wilt..receive the Manumitting blow On thy shav'd slavish Head. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. §39 The motives valid when the manumitting owner is under twenty, are admissible when the manumitted slave is under thirty. 1942 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 11 180 Manumitting clauses were inserted in wills to reward individual Negroes who had served long and faithfully. 1989 William & Mary Q. 46 334 The first manumission recorded..was that of Richard Allen; but because it was listed in an index of manumitting masters under the name ‘Sturgis’,..historians have not previously found their way to it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1616 |
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