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freedman

[ US /ˈfɹidmən/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈiːdmən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who has been freed from slavery

How To Use freedman In A Sentence

  • Damage to the property of another injuria datum was the subject matter of the Aquilian Law, and the damage must have been inflicted by a freedman; if by a slave, it was a noxal tort; if by a quadruped, the tort and liability were designated pauperies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Christianity in the social relations of master and slave is plain from the exceedingly small number of inscriptions containing the words servus (slave), or libertus (freedman), words which are constantly seen on pagan gravestones; the often recurring expression alumnus (foster-child) characterizes the new relation between the owner and the owned. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • In the first place, Horace was not a knight; he was the son of a freedman of Venusia, in Apulia, who exercised the humble office of coactor exauctionum, (collector of payments at auctions.) (Sat.i. vi. 45, or 86.) History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
  • I learned every person in our group is bound to St. Catharines, which is in Ontario, Canada, but not the freedman in our group, Mr. Adam Will. Eliza’s Freedom Road
  • To supplement the work of the schools and churches in the religious training of the freedman was the great and blessed mission of the W.B. H.M. Society. "In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches
  • They were ready when Emancipation came, and the amendments to the Constitution followed, to organize the "freedman," instruct and coach him, and place him securely into the Republican fold. Unwritten History
  • Scamander's patron (as they used to call a freedman's old master) was next brought to trial, and with the same result. Roman life in the days of Cicero
  • Freedman is co-chair of the state Personal Financial Planning Committee, and is a frequent speaker on eldercare topics.
  • It is, however, more generally thought that it is thereby meant that he was the freedman or liberated slave of some Roman noble of the family of the Claudii.] [Footnote 17: _Treble flutes and bass flutes_) -- The history of ancient music, and especially that relative to the “tibiæ,” The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes
  • The political trough at which Davis and his partners at Davis, Manafort & Freedman have fed gluttonously will have gone dry. Rick Davis and McCain's Failed Campaign Strategy
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