Emancipate

English

Verb

Emancipate (third-person singular simple present Emancipates, present participle emancipating, simple past and past participle emancipated)

1. To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
   1. To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child.
   2. To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
2. To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.

Synonyms

• liberate

Derived terms

• emancipatory
• emancipatrix

Related terms

• emancipation
• emancipator
• emancipist

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

< Latin emancipatus, past participle of emancipare (“to declare (a son) free and independent of the father's power by the thrice-repeated act of mancipatio and manumission, give from one's own power or authority into that of another, give up, surrender”) < e (“out”) + mancipare (“to transfer ownership in”) < manceps (“purchaser, a contractor, literally, one who takes in hand”) < manus (“hand”) + capere (“to take”). See manual, and capable.

Translations

• Catalan: emancipar (ca)
• Spanish: emancipar (es)

Adjective

Emancipate (comparative more Emancipate, superlative most Emancipate)

1. Freed; set at liberty.

External links

• Emancipate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Emancipate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Italian

Adjective

emancipate f.

1. Feminine plural form of emancipato

Verb

emancipate

1. second-person plural present indicative of emancipare
2. second-person plural imperative of emancipare
3. Feminine plural of emancipato

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Latin

Verb

ēmancipāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmancipō