They both measure the same thing (temperature!), but use different numbers: Boiling water (at normal pressure) measures 100Â° in Celsius, but 212Â° in Fahrenheit.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. Different approaches developed, each specific to the time and place of a society's slave system. The motivations of slave owners in manumitting slaves were complex and varied.
Historical Examples. 1  If a person manumitted a slave, good security was required: if he failed to do this, the manumission was of no avail. 2  In manacle and manumission we read the story of human slavery and freedom. 3  But this is just what the manumission of the black people of this country has accomplished.