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mancipates

mancipates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mancipate.

Meaning of mancipate

Verb

mancipate (third-person singular simple present mancipates, present participle mancipating, simple past and past participle mancipated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To enslave.
    • Lastly, that he was resolved to eat coals before he would mancipate himself to the French nation, or sell himself for any rewards, which he rejected with more magnificence than they were offered; […]1754, Thomas Birch, Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
  2. (historical, transitive) To transfer (property) by mancipation (simulated purchase).

Questions about mancipates

What is mancipates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mancipates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mancipate.

Words near mancipates in the dictionary

  1. Mancinos
  2. mancipable
  3. mancipant
  4. mancipate
  5. mancipated
  6. mancipates
  7. mancipating
  8. mancipatio
  9. mancipation
  10. mancipations
  11. mancipative

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