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mancipating

mancipating is the present participle and gerund 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 mancipating

What is mancipating the present participle and gerund of?
Mancipating is the present participle and gerund of mancipate.

Words near mancipating in the dictionary

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

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