MANCIPATE

Verb

mancipate (third-person singular simple present mancipates, present participle mancipating, simple past and past participle mancipated)

(obsolete) To enslave

Source: Wiktionary


Man"ci*pate, v. t. Etym: [L. mancipatus, p. p. of mancipare to sell. Cf. Emancipate.]

Definition: To enslave; to bind; to restrict. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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11 April 2025

NEWSPAPER

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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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