Definition of Emancipate

E`man´ci`pate
v. t.1.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.
[imp. & p. p. Emancipated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Emancipating.]
Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas.
- Jowett (Thucyd. ).
2.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.
a.1.Set at liberty.


Related Words

affranchise, discharge, disenthrall, enfranchise, let go, let loose, loose, loosen, manumit, release, rescue, set at large, set at liberty, set free, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unshackle

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