manu-, man-, mani-, mandat-, manda-

British spelling for maneuver.

1. The quality or state of being gentle; meekness, tameness.
2. Gentleness of manner; mildness; such as, the mansuetude of Christian love.
3. Etymology: "tameness, gentleness, mildness", from Latin mansuetudo, "tameness"; from mansuetus, past participle of mansuescere, "to tame"; literally, "to accustom to the hand", from manus, "hand" + suescere, "to accustom, to habituate".

1. Done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands rather than by an electrical or electronic device: "He drove a car with a manual gearshift."
2. Involving or using human effort, skill, power, energy, etc.; physical: "For years, he worked in manual labor."
3. Of or pertaining to the hand or hands: "He had manual deformities."
4. Of the nature of a manual or handbook: "She received the manual instructions for the new washing machine."

A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing; factory, mill, manufacturing plant, industrial plant.

1. The making of goods or wares by manual (hand) labor or by machinery; especially, on a large scale: "She worked for a manufacture of television sets."
2. The making or producing of anything; generation: "The company was a manufacturer of body cells."
3. The thing or material manufactured; a product.

1. The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage.
2. The act or process of manumitting; especially: the formal liberation of a slave.
3. To free from slavery or bondage.

Manumission is the act of freeing a slave, done at the will of the owner of the slave. The term is from Middle English and is derived from the Latin manumittere. The act of manumission dates back to ancient Rome. Popes, emperors, and minor landholders; all were counted among those who practiced it.

During the Middle Ages serfs were freed through a form of manumission which was a process that differed from time-to-time and from lord-to-lord. High productivity, loyal service, or even buying their way out of service were all reasons for which slaves or serfs received their freedom under manumission.

In ancient Rome, freed slaves were not "freeborn" and were still required to grovel in the presence of their former masters. During the Middle Ages serfs, who had obtained their freedom and farmland, would often give up their land in troubled times in exchange for the protection of their former feudal masters. In times of bad harvest, serfs could find themselves, once again, attached to the land of a noble for lack of any other means of survival.

For these reasons, manumission is not the same as emancipation, the freeing of slaves by an act of government (for example, at the end of the American Civil War).

To free from slavery or bondage; to emancipate.

A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it by using the hands.

1. To work with the hands; to spread manually (from Anglo-Frrench meynoverer, from Old French manouvrer, "to work with the hands".
2. Material, especially barnyard or stable dung, often with discarded animal bedding, used to fertilize soil.
3. To fertilize (soil) by applying material such as barnyard dung.

The sense of "work the earth" led to "put dung on the soil" (1599) and to the current noun meaning "dung spread as fertilizer," which is first attested in 1549.

1. To write with one’s (own) hand; to write by hand.
2. To write a book, a document, or a piece of music by hand rather than as a typed or printed production.

1. A book or other text written by hand, especially one written before the invention of printing.
2. An author’s text for a book, article, or other piece of written work as it is submitted for publication.
3. Handwriting as opposed to machine-printed words.

1. The perpetual, nontransferable, and non-salable ownership of property by organizations; such as, churches.
2. The usually stultifying (being useless or worthless), or stifling (repressive), influence of the past on current events and living people.
3. The often oppressive influence of the past on the present.