remancipate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To return to a previous owner or the one who was previously in charge.
Example Sentences
- "'Fiducia' is an agreement of trust, whereby the transferee in a mancipatio undertakes to divest himself of the ownership which has been conveyed to him, and more especially — in certain circumstances — to remancipate the thing he has received."
- "The hostile argument is easily constructed: a mancipation to remancipate is at best merely a temporary arrangement, at worst a fraudulent collusion; and a remancipation after a mancipation is evidence in itself of an agreement and obligation to remancipate."
- "A daughter cannot in any way force her father to remancipate her, even if she is an adopted daughter; a wife, on the other hand, who has been repudiated [by] (or has repudiated) [her husband], can force her husband [to remancipate her], as if she had never been married to him."
Etymology
From re- + mancipate.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re