سعو ند سعى

10 استسعى العَبْدَ ذ (S, Msb, K) فِى قِيمَتِهِ (S, Msb) He required of the slave that he should labour to earn the means of releasing himself: (Msb:) or he imposed upon the slave work by means of which he should pay for himself, when he had been emancipated in part, in order to his completing his emancipation: and ↓ سِعَايَةٌ signifies the work so imposed. (K.) ― -b2- And استسعاهُ He employed him as collector of the poor-rate. (JM; and the like is said in the TA, from a trad.) [See also 4.]