emancipate

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  1. transitive verb To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate.
  2. transitive verb Law To release (a child) from the control of parents or a guardian.

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  • The President's Proclamation simply means this: Come in and emancipate peaceably with compensation; stay out and I emancipate, nor will I protect you from the consequences. —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Do it for your ease, do it for your indolence, do it for your safety—emancipate and eat emancipate and drink—emancipate, and preserve the rent-roll and the family estate In conclusion he gives a word of warning first to his Roman Catholic clients, imploring them to be patient as well as firm; and then to the various sections of the “No Popery” party in England To the Base .—Sweet children of turpitude, beware! —  Sydney Smith
  • His story summarizes the tormented history of a young nation seeking to emancipate: Indonesia, literally the India of the islands, the unusual "Insulindia". —  AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media
  • I am cutting open the hard crust of human civilization to help emancipate, beneficial fungi, earthworm colonies and beneficial microbes. —  portland indymedia - features
  • I am cutting open the hard crust of human civilization to help emancipate, beneficial fungi, earthworm colonies and beneficial microbes. open publishing newswire: Come to the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference Thursday, —  portland indymedia - features
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin ēmancipāre, ēmancipāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + mancipāre, to sell, transfer (from manceps, mancip-, purchaser; see man-2 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Latin emancipatus, past participle of emancipare, emancupare (later Italian emancipare = Spanish Portuguese emancipar = French émanciper = Dutch emanciperen = German emancipiren = Danish emancipere = Swedish emancipera, emancipate), declare (a son) free and independent of the father's power by the thrice-repeated act of mancipatio and manumissio, give from one's own power or authority into that of another, give up, surrender, from e, out, + mancipare, mancupare, give over or deliver up, as property, by means of the formal act called mancipium, give up, transfer, from manceps (mancip-), a purchaser, a contractor, literally one who takes (the property or a symbol of it) in hand, from manus, hand, + capere, take. From manceps comes also mancipium, the formal act of purchase, hence a thing so purchased, and especially a slave; but emancipare was not used in reference to freeing slaves, the word for this act being manumittere: see manumit.
  2. from Latin emancipatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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