Lewis Short
(verb) : mănūmitto (also as two words
* V.infra; and ante-class. manu emitto, v. emitto, I. B.), mīsi, missum, 3, 1. manus-mitto, to release from one's power (manus), to set at liberty, to enfranchise, emancipate, make free a slave (v. manumissio): quos (servos) nisi manumisisset,Cic. Mil. 22, 58: sunt servi de cognatorum sententiā manumissi,id. Cael. 29, 68; id. Fam. 13, 77, 3: testamento manumissi,Tac. A. 13, 32: quos proxime inter amicos manumisisti,Plin. Ep. 7, 16, 4.—Separated by other words: orabo, ut manu me mittat,Plaut. Aul. 5, 4: manu vero cur miserit?Cic. Mil. 22, 57: manu non mittere,Liv. 41, 9, 11 fin.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary