Manumissio, ônis, f. g. Verbale. Cicero. The making free of a bondman: deliuerauuce out of bondage. Manufactus, vnica dictione, aut duabus, opponitur Naturali. Cels. Cic.Made by hande.Manufacta piscina. Varro. Manus. Curtius. Plin. The snoute of an elephant. Manus. Quint. Ones hand in writing.Epistola librarij manu est.Cic.The epistle was written with my clearkes haud.Mea manu literæ, Vide MEVS.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mănūmissĭo, ōnis, f. [manumitto], the freeing of a slave, manumission. It was effected either per censum (when the person to be freed was registered in the census), or per testamentum, or per vindictam (v. vindicta, and Cic. Top. 2, 10); in these three cases it was called justa manumissio. A fourth mode, which, however, was less valid, consisted in pronouncing the slave free before (five) friends, or inviting him to table, or by letter, Cic. Cael. 29, 69; Gai. Inst. 1, 17; Plin. Ep. 7, 16, 4; Val. Max. 2, 6, 7; Sen. Vit. Beat. 24, 3.—II.Transf., a remission of punishment, pardon, Sen. Clem. 1, 3, 1.