▪ I. † ˈmancipate, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. mancipāt-us, pa. pple. of mancipāre: see next.]
Made subject (to).
| 1502 Arnolde Chron. 60 b/2 The said gengemi was taken and to prison mancipate. 1577 Holinshed Chron. Eng. 192/1 As they whiche though they were partly free, yet in some poynt remayned styll as thrall and mancipate to the subiection of the English men. 1687 Renwick Serm., etc. (1776) 531 All are to be mancipate and enslaved to it. |
▪ II. mancipate, v.
(ˈmænsɪpeɪt)
[f. L. mancipāt-, ppl. stem of mancipāre, f. man-us hand + root of capĕre to take.]
1. Roman Law. (trans.) To hand over by the formality of mancipation.
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., Mancipate, to deliver possession, to give the right to another, to sell for money. 1870 Abdy & Walker tr. Gaius i. cxx. 40 In this manner persons, both slaves and free, are mancipated. Ibid. cxxi, But estates can be mancipated when at a distance. 1880 Muirhead Gaius i. §132 The father again mancipates him either to the same person..or to a different one—it is the usual practice to mancipate to the same. |
† 2. To make subject, enslave. Chiefly with to, unto. Often transf. and fig. Obs.
| 1574 Newton Health Mag. Pref., For their sakes..that live of themselves freely and are not enthralled or mancipated to the inconveniences abovesaide. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. vi. (1651) 160 They voluntarily mancipate, and sell themselves..to rich men to avoid hunger and beggery. 1633 W. Struther True Happiness Ep., Aristotle..disputed much of Vertue; but proved miserable in his life, and with the rest mancipated vertue unto pleasure. 1644 H. Parker Jus Pop. 23 When the election..of Judges, Commanders and Counsellors of State is requested, 'tis answered that this is to mancipate the Crowne. a 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. ii. 47 Which cannot be done by Plants, who are mancipated and fixed to the place of their station or growth. a 1713 T. Ellwood Autobiog. (1855) 187 One to soft music mancipates his ear. 1755 Johnson, Slave, one mancipated to a master. 1756 Monitor No. 41 (1760) I. 397 What brought Gaveston to the block? but his mancipating the king. |
¶ b. (See quot.)
| 1623 Cockeram, Mancipate, to tame. |
† 3. To devote or consecrate to. Obs.
| 1715 M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 77 Monday is Mancipated to the Invocation of Saints. 1829 J. Donovan tr. Catech. Council Trent ii. vii. Quest. 18 Know that thou art mancipated [ed. 2 (1839) altered to ‘devoted’: L. mancipari] to light the lights of the Church, in the Name of the Lord. |
¶ 4. Misused for emancipate. Obs. rare—1.
Cf. med.L. mancipatio (in Du Cange).
| a 1677 Barrow Serm. Wks. 1686 II. 212 Such a dispensation is a pupillage, and a slavery, which he [man] earnestly must desire to be redeemed and mancipated from. |
Hence ˈmancipating ppl. a.
| 1819 H. Busk Vestriad iii. 537 Coarcted by your mancipating spell. |