emancipate

From 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”), from e (“out”) + mancipare (“to transfer ownership in”), from manceps (“purchaser, a contractor, literally, one who takes in hand”), from manus (“hand”) + capere (“to take”). See manual, and capable.

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

      a father may emancipate a child

   2. To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit

      to emancipate a slave

      emancipate a country

2. To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence

   emancipate someone from prejudices or error

   • 1980, Bob Marley, Redemption Song

     Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.

   • (Can we date this quote by Evelyn?)

     From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences […] he had emancipated and freed himself.

   • (Can we date this quote by A. W. Ward?)

     to emancipate the human conscience

• liberate
• manumit

• emancipatory
• emancipatrix

• emancipation
• emancipator
• emancipist

emancipate (comparative more emancipate, superlative most emancipate)

1. Freed; set at liberty.

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

emancipate

1. feminine plural of emancipato

emancipate

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

ēmancipāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmancipō