Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Emancipate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Emancipate \E*man"ci*pate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emancipated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Emancipating}.] [L. emancipatus, p. p. of
emancipare to emancipate; e + mancipare to transfer ownership
in, fr. manceps purchaser, as being one who laid his hand on
the thing bought; manus hand + capere to take. See {Manual},
and {Capable}.]
To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
(a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may
emancipate a child.
(b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit;
as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to
emancipate Hellas. --Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
(c) To free from any controlling influence, especially from
anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to
emancipate one from prejudices or error.
From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences
. . . he had emancipated and freed himself.
--Evelyn.
To emancipate the human conscience. --A. W. Ward.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Emancipate \E*man"ci*pate\, a. [L. emancipatus, p. p.]
Set at liberty.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
emancipate
v 1: give equal rights to; of women and minorities [syn: {liberate}]
2: free from slavery or servitude [syn: {manumit}]
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