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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Offhand; immediately; without delay; at once.
- noun At or by one's own hand; without the intervention of another; specifically, in Scots law, on one's own authority, or without legal warrant.
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Prolagus commented on the word brevi manu
Lit. "with a short hand", it is used in Italian to describe a direct delivery, without intermediaries; for the original Latin meaning cf. here.
April 22, 2009