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manucaptors

manucaptors is the plural of manucaptor.

Meaning of manucaptor

Noun

manucaptor (plural manucaptors)

  1. (obsolete) In English common law, a person empowered to take bail and capture a person who forfeits it.
    • Later in the same day, however, he was taken to the manor of Cippenham, Buckinghamshire, the property of Richard, earl of Cornwall, and there, under duress (as he later pleaded) and in the presence of John Chishall, the chancellor, he made over all his lands to eleven ‘manucaptors’, all notable...a. 1279, J. R. Maddicott, Ferrers, Robert de, sixth earl of Derby (c. 1239–1279), in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

Questions about manucaptors

What is manucaptors the plural of?
Manucaptors is the plural of manucaptor.

Words near manucaptors in the dictionary

  1. manubriectomy
  2. manubriosternal
  3. manubrium
  4. manubriums
  5. manucaptor
  6. manucaptors
  7. manucode
  8. manucodes
  9. manucodiata
  10. manucodiatas
  11. manuduction

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