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emancipate

verb
/ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpeɪt/UK/əˈmæn(t)səˌpeɪt/US/ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpət/UK/əˈmæn(t)səˌpət/US

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ēmancipātus (“liberated, emancipated”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by the specified thing’). Ēmancipātus is the perfect passive participle of ēmancipō (“to declare (someone) free and independent of another’s power, emancipate; to give (something) from one’s authority or power into that of another, to alienate, transfer; to cause (oneself or someone) to become another’s slave; to make (someone) subservient”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mancipō (“to sell; to transfer”) (from manceps (“owner, possessor; purchaser; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs)). The verb emancipate has verb sense 1.1 (“to set free”) and verb sense 1.3 (“(obsolete) to place under one’s control”) which are contradictory. The Latin word ēmancipō had the same senses, and the Oxford English Dictionary notes that according to the Latin grammarian Paulus Festus (fl. 8th century) this is because both actions were effected by the legal process of mancipation.

  1. learned borrowing from ēmancipātus — “liberated, emancipated”

Definitions

  1. To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another

    To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.

  2. Often followed by from

    Often followed by from: to free (oneself or someone, or something) from some constraint or controlling influence (especially when evil or undue); also, to free (oneself or someone) from mental oppression.

    • Education can emancipate us from error or prejudices.
    • And it is on all Hands agreed that there is need of great Toil and Labour of the Mind, to Emancipate our Thoughts from particular Objects, and raiſe them to thoſe Sublime Speculations that are converſant about abſtract Ideas.

  3. To place (something) under one's control

    To place (something) under one's control; specifically (chiefly reflexive), to cause (oneself or someone) to become the slave of another person; to enslave; also, to subjugate (oneself or someone).

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To become free from the oppression or restraint of another.

    2. Synonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some…

      Synonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free”).

      • For I doe take the conſideration in generall, and at large of hvmane natvre to be fit to be emancipate, & made a knovvledge by it ſelf; […]
      • VVe have no ſlaves at home.—Then vvhy abroad? / And they themſelves once ferried o'er the vvave / That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd.
      • This be thy chosen haunt—emancipate / From passion's dreams, a freeman, and alone, / I rise and trace its devious course.

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Derived

emancipated, emancipatee, emancipating, emancipatist, emancipative, emancipator, emancipatory, emancipatrix, emancipee, emancipist, unemancipable, unemancipated

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA