Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to manacle
Participle: manacled
Gerund: manacling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | manacle |
| you | manacle |
| he;she;it | manacles |
| we | manacle |
| you | manacle |
| they | manacle |
Perfect
| I | have manacled |
| you | have manacled |
| he;she;it | has manacled |
| we | have manacled |
| you | have manacled |
| they | have manacled |
Past
| I | manacled |
| you | manacled |
| he;she;it | manacled |
| we | manacled |
| you | manacled |
| they | manacled |
Pluperfect
| I | had manacled |
| you | had manacled |
| he;she;it | had manacled |
| we | had manacled |
| you | had manacled |
| they | had manacled |
Future
| I | will manacle |
| you | will manacle |
| he;she;it | will manacle |
| we | will manacle |
| you | will manacle |
| they | will manacle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have manacled |
| you | will have manacled |
| he;she;it | will have manacled |
| we | will have manacled |
| you | will have manacled |
| they | will have manacled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | manacle |
| you | manacle |
| he;she;it | manacle |
| we | manacle |
| you | manacle |
| they | manacle |
Perfect
| I | have manacled |
| you | have manacled |
| he;she;it | have manacled |
| we | have manacled |
| you | have manacled |
| they | have manacled |
Imperfect
| I | manacled |
| you | manacled |
| he;she;it | manacled |
| we | manacled |
| you | manacled |
| they | manacled |
Pluperfect
| I | had manacled |
| you | had manacled |
| he;she;it | had manacled |
| we | had manacled |
| you | had manacled |
| they | had manacled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would manacle |
| you | would manacle |
| he;she;it | would manacle |
| we | would manacle |
| you | would manacle |
| they | would manacle |
Perfect
| I | would have manacled |
| you | would have manacled |
| he;she;it | would have manacled |
| we | would have manacled |
| you | would have manacled |
| they | would have manacled |
Imperative
| you | manacle |
| we | Let's manacle |
| you | manacle |
Verbs conjugated like 'manacle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'manacle'
manace,
barnacle,
immanacle,
manage,
mangle,
mantle,
menace,
miracle,
unmanacle,
anele,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is derived from Middle English manacle, manakelle, manakil, manakyll, manicle, manikil, manycle, manykil, manykle, from Anglo-Norman manicle, manichle (“gauntlet; handle of a plough; (in plural) manacles”), and Middle French manicle, Old French manicle (“armlet; gauntlet; (in plural) manacles”) (modern French manicle, manique (“gauntlet”)), from Latin manicula (“handle of a plough; manacle”), from manus (“hand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)) + -cula (from -culus, variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns)). Doublet of manicle and manicule.
2. The verb is probably derived from the noun, although according to the Oxford English Dictionary it is attested slightly earlier.
Sample Sentences
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[C]ome, / Ile manacle thy necke and feete together: / Sea water ſhalt thou drinke: thy food ſhall be / The freſh-brooke Muſſels, wither'd roots, and huskes / Wherein the Acorne cradled. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 6, column 1:]
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My lord, I humbly desire that we may not be manacled; if you make any doubt of us, that we may have a greater guard upon us. [...] Mr. Sheriff, I desire that this manacling may be forborn: if you please to clap a guard of a hundred men upon us, I shall pay for it. This is not only a disgrace to me, but in general to all soldiers; which doth more trouble me than the loss of my life. [1649, “185. The Trial of Colonel John Morris, Governor of Pontefract Castle; at the Assizes at the Castle of York, before Mr. John Puleston, and Mr. Baron Thorpe, Justices of Assize, for High Treason: […]”, in [William] Cobbett, editor, Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, volume IV, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, […]; published by R. Bagshaw [et al.], published 1809, →OCLC, column 1266:]
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A few weeks since we gave an account of a company of men, women and children, part of whom were manacled, passing through our streets. Last week, a number of slaves were driven through the main street of our city, among whom were a number manacled together, two abreast, all connected by, and supporting a heavy iron chain, which extended the whole length of the line. [From the Western Luminary, Lexington, Kentucky.] [1833, “Tortures, by Iron Collars, Chains, Fetters, Handcuffs, &c.”, in American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (The Anti-Slavery Examiner; 10), New York, N.Y.: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, […], published May 1839, →OCLC, page 76, column 1:]
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As it came nearer, I saw it to be Magwitch, swimming, but not swimming freely. He was taken on board, and instantly manacled at the wrists and ankles. [1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XV, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 259:]
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Not satisfied with the feats by which he has won the title of "Handcuff King," this man recently dropped from a height of 98 ft. into the harbor at Sydney, Australia, with his hands manacled behind his back, and his eyes blindfolded. A year or so ago his "star" feat was making an escape from a bag in which he was placed, both hands and feet manacled, and thrown into the water. [1912 February, “Drops, Manacled, in Water from 98-foot Height”, in H[enry] H[aven] Windsor, editor, Popular Mechanics Magazine, volume 17, number 2, Chicago, Ill.: Popular Mechanics Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 253, column 2:]
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You have shown yourself a mighty fighter, and we do not wish to manacle you, so we hold you both in the easiest way that will yet ensure security. [1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “A Duel to the Death”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., October 1917, →OCLC, pages 143–144:]