emancipatedst

Verb

emancipate (third-person singular simple present emancipates, present participle emancipating, simple past and past participle emancipated)

1. (transitive) To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
   • [T]his was his [God's] first work,to redeem, to vindicate them from the usurper, to deliver them from the intruder, to emancipate them from the tyrant, to cancel the covenant between hell and them, and restore them. so far to their liberty, as that they might come to their first Master if they...1626 January 4 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), John Donne, “Sermon III. Preached on Christmas-Day, 1625.”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume I, London: John...
   1. (transitive) To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.
      • to emancipate a colony
   2. (also, reflexive, transitive) Often followed by from: chiefly with reference to slavery in the United States, and in Central and South America: to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery.
      • to pass a law emancipating slaves
   3. (transitive) To release (a minor) from the legal authority and custody which a parent or guardian has over them; also (Ancient Rome, historical), to release (a child) from the legal authority of the paterfamilias.
      • The child was emancipated from her parents
2. (also, figuratively, reflexive, transitive) 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.
3. (obsolete, transitive) 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).
   • He that vvill ſinne vnto death, or ſinne ſo farre as to put himſelfe into the ſtate of damnation; muſt ſinne ſo farre, as vtterly to ſeparate, and cut off himſelfe from Chriſt, vtterly to extirpate all the ſeeds and habits of true and ſauing grace vvhich are vvithin him, and vvholly to emancipate...1626, William Prynne, “An Answer to the Arguments which may be Objected”, in The Perpetuitie of a Regenerate Mans Estate. […], London: […] William Iones […], →OCLC, page 321

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