Word For The Day, Thursday, February 27, 2014 – manumit

dictionaries ad nauseam | 27 February 2014 | Thursday's sub

[secret garden]

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

manumit (man-yuh-MIT) tr.verb
To free from slavery.

Example sentence:
"George Washington always intended to manumit those of his slaves who were his own to free (as opposed to the 'dower slaves' from his wife's estate) and he did free them in his will."
--First Among Equals; The Economist (London, UK); Oct 21, 2010.

Etymology:
From Latin manus (hand) + mittere (to let go). Ultimately from the Indo-European root man- (hand), which also gave us manual, manage, maintain, manicure, maneuver, manufacture, manuscript, command, manure,manque, legerdemain, and mortmain. Earliest documented use: 1455.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!

[Texan5]

I don’t live in a bigtime tornado area, but I do know the odds of having one in the living room are considerably less than having something nasty happen to you on a Klingon prison/cruise ship...

And yes, my first husband and did the cruise ship thing-about 20 years ago when it was actually rather safe. By the time we reached the Bahamas, we were so annoyed with the whiney, loud, rude passengers and the cheerleading staff that during the scripted herding of everyone through the shops, we ditched the cruise people, took off, checked into a hotel and struck out on our own. We had a great time after that, found out own flight out to the Keys a couple days later, and spent a couple days there, too.

[xsmommy]

oh lordy, Rev David Manning has the long legged mack daddy releasing the homo demons. he cracks me up!

[Texan5]

I understand his point, but he is way out there...

[secret garden]

I have never had any desire to be cooped up in a tiny room on a floating hotel either. Friends have told me how much fun they are but I don’t think I would enjoy it at all.

[Texan5]

I’m claustrophobic-tiny closed rooms are enough to drag me to the edge-we used to stop at Carlsbad Caverns sometimes on the way to visit my 1st husband’s family in NM, which always delighted the cub, and made me literally sweat as we made our way down, down into the cave, and I was nearly gasping in relief when we came out...

[secret garden]

My sister’s that way too. Had to use open MRI machines.

[NeoCaveman]

The Long Legged Mack Daddy is not pleased with the good pastor.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Thanks for the link. I follow Tammy Bruce on Twitter. Didn’t know she was gay. Glad that she’s a conservative.

[xsmommy]

As she says in the podcast being gay is usually not relevant to what she’s talking about, but in this case it makes what she has to say even stronger.

[xsmommy]

God is on the reverand’s side, Mack daddy... Well he’s on the other guy’s side....

[VRWCmember]

The "love that dare not speak its name" has transformed into the fornication that won't shut the hell up. The idea that a group should be left alone and free to live life the way they want has morphed into the idea that they should be free to force others to cater to their desires. Pretty soon nothing will be able to manumit any of us from subservience to the DC plantation.

[secret garden]

Let’s work on only electing conservatives. A for you.