emancipate

From Latin ēmancipātus, past participle of ēmancipō (“to declare (a son) free and independent of the father's power by the thrice-repeated act of mancipātiō and manumissiō, give from one's own power or authority into that of another, give up, surrender”), from ē (“out”) + mancipō (“to transfer ownership in”), from manceps (“purchaser, a contractor, literally, one who takes in hand”), from manus (“hand”) + capiō (“to take”). See manual, and capable.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪt/

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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

      The child was emancipated from its parents

   2. To set free from slavery or 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

   • 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets

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

   • 1879, Adolphus Ward, Chaucer, in English Men of Letters

     to emancipate the human conscience

   • 1980, “Redemption Song”, performed by Bob Marley:

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

• 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 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 f pl

1. feminine plural of emancipato

emancipate

1. inflection of emancipare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

ēmancipāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmancipō