manciple

英 ['mænsɪp(ə)l] 美 ['mænsəpl]

manciple: manciple: see emancipate
manciple (n.): "officer or servant who purchases provisions for a college, monastery, etc.," early 13c., from Old French mancipe "servant, official, manciple," from Latin mancipium "servant, slave, slave obtained by legal transfer; the legal purchase of a thing," literally "a taking in hand," from manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)) + root of capere "to take" (see capable).