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Emancipate

Emancipate Meaning & Definition
Emancipate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Emancipate?

[v] free from slavery or servitude
[v] give equal rights to; of women and minorities

Synonyms | Synonyms for Emancipate: manumit

Related Terms | Find terms related to Emancipate: affranchise | deliver | discharge | disenthrall | enfranchise | free | let go | let loose | liberate | loose | loosen | manumit | release | rescue | set at large | set at liberty | set free | unbind | unchain | unfetter | unshackle

See Also | change state | liberate | set free | turn

Emancipate In Webster's Dictionary

\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.
\E*man"ci*pate\, a. [L. emancipatus, p. p.] Set at liberty.

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