emancipate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
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.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: emancipates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emancipating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emancipated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: emancipated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: emancipate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: emancipate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: emancipated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: emancipate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: emancipatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: emancipated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: emancipatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: emancipates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emancipateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: emancipated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: emancipate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: emancipated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: emancipate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: emancipated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: emancipate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: emancipating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emancipated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: more emancipate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emancipate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [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 would: this was redeeming.
Enlightened ministers like Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein and Karl August von Hardenberg enacted a comprehensive series of domestic reforms. They transformed backward, semifeudal Prussia into a modern state: abolishing serfdom, granting self-government to towns, with elected town councils replacing royal appointees; and formally emancipating the Jews, granting them full citizenship for the first time, even if full social acceptance remained wanting.
gloss: To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to emancipate a colony
Abundant harvests and patient industry amply supplied the wants of Presidio and Mission. Isolated from the family of nations, the wars which shook the world concerned them not so much as the last earthquake; the struggle that emancipated their sister colonies on the other side of the continent to them had no suggestiveness.
gloss: To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
pos: verb
tags: also
reflexive
transitive
examples: to pass a law emancipating slaves
The number of prisoners whom [George] Jeffreys transported was eight hundred and forty-one. These men, more wretched than their associates who suffered death, were distributed into gangs, and bestowed on persons who enjoyed favour at court. The conditions of the gift were that the convicts should be carried beyond sea as slaves, that they should not be emancipated for ten years, and that the place of their banishment should be some West Indian island.
Into this house he brought Eliza; and, on condition of her living with him, she and her children were to be emancipated. She resided with him there nine years, with servants to attend upon her, and provided with every comfort and luxury of life.
Then the long-headed man with care-chiselled face who sat in the White House [Abraham Lincoln] saw the inevitable, and emancipated the slaves of rebels on New Year's, 1863.
gloss: To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The child was emancipated from her parents
The Procreation, or Children of a Common-vvealth, are thoſe vve call Plantations, or Colonies; […] And vvhen a Colony is ſetled, they are either a Common-vvealth of themſelves, diſcharged of their ſubjection to their Soveraign that ſent them, (as hath been done by many Common-vvealths of antient time,) in vvhich caſe the Common-vvealth from vvhich they vvent, vvas called their Metropolis, or Mother, and requires no more of them, then Fathers require of the Children, vvhom they emancipate, and make free from their domeſtique government, vvhich is Honour, and Friendſhip; or elſe they remain united to their Metropolis, as vvere the Colonies of the people of Rome; and then they are no Common-vvealths themſelves, but Provinces, and parts of the Common-vvealth that ſent them.
[I]f his [the paterfamilias'] wife had not passed in manum—and that was common enough even during the republic and universal in the later empire—she did not become a member of his family; she remained a member of the family in which she was born, or, if its head was deceased, or she had been emancipated, was the sole member of a family of her own. Both sons and daughters on emancipation ceased to be of the family of the paterfamilias who had emancipated them.
Enlistment for active duty with a branch of the armed forces emancipates a minor. In many jurisdictions this emancipation only lasts during the period of active service.
When I was fourteen, I was emancipated by the courts. It's no secret that I had to part ways from my mother because we had driven our relationship into the ground.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
reflexive
transitive
examples: Education can emancipate us from error or prejudices.
The vvhole Epiſtle deſerves the Reading, for the excellent Advice he gives on this and other Subjects; and hovv from many troubleſome and ſlaviſh Impertinencies, grovvn into Habit and Cuſtom (old as he vvas) he had Emancipated and freed himſelf: […]
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.
At all events, from that day I was emancipated from modern Puritanism.
Thou [God] emancipatest and restorest the poor sinner by the finished work of Thy Beloved Son [Jesus].
Wyclif [John Wycliffe], […] sought to emancipate the human conscience from reliance upon any earthly authority intermediate between the soul and its Maker, […]
Duly he calls at the chancellor's door; sometimes he is admitted to immediate audience; sometimes kicketh his heels in the ante-chamber (once he kicked them for cold, but now there is a fire); sometimes a gracious message emancipateth him for the day.
All feeling suffereth in me, and is in prison: but my willing ever cometh to me as mine emancipator and comforter. Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation—so teacheth you Zarathustra.
O God, of Thyself, Thou Blessed Thy Devotees with Thy Devotion, / And, Thou Emancipatest Thy Seekers, snapping all their Bonds.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, / None but ourselves can free our minds
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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 and inthrall himſelfe to the ſeruice of ſinne and Sathan: […]
gloss: To become free from the oppression or restraint of another.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: We shall hardly induce black men to believe that if their stomachs be full, it matters little about their brains. They already dimly perceive that the paths of peace winding between honest toil and dignified manhood call for the guidance of skilled thinkers, the loving, reverent comradeship between the black lowly and the black men emancipated by training and culture.
gloss: Synonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free”).
pos: adj
examples: 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.
Related words: capable
emancipation
mancipate
mancipation
mancipee
manual
nonemancipation
Derived words: emancipated
emancipatee
emancipating
emancipatist
emancipative
emancipator
emancipatory
emancipatrix
emancipee
emancipist
unemancipable
unemancipated
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: ахы́ а́қәиҭтәра
roman: axə́ ákʷittʷʼra
lang: Arabic
word: أَطْلَقَ
roman: ʔaṭlaqa
lang: Arabic
word: أَعْتَقَ
roman: ʔaʕtaqa
lang: Arabic
word: حَرَّرَ
roman: ḥarrara
lang: Armenian
word: ազատագրել
roman: azatagrel
lang: Basque
word: emantzipatzeko
lang: Bulgarian
word: еманципирам
roman: emancipiram
lang: Catalan
word: emancipar
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 解放
roman: gaai² fong³
lang: Chinese
word: 解放
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 解放
roman: jiěfàng
lang: Danish
word: frigøre
lang: Dutch
word: emanciperen
lang: Dutch
word: vrijmaken
lang: Esperanto
word: emancipi
lang: Finnish
word: emansipoida
lang: Finnish
word: vapauttaa
lang: French
word: émanciper
lang: French
word: affranchir
lang: Galician
word: emancipar
lang: German
word: emanzipieren
lang: German
word: verselbstständigen
lang: Greek
word: ανεξαρτητοποιώ
roman: anexartitopoió
lang: Greek
word: ανεξαρτοποιώ
roman: anexartopoió
lang: Greek
word: απελευθερώνω
roman: apeleftheróno
lang: Greek
word: χειραφετώ
roman: cheirafetó
lang: Hebrew
word: גָּאַל
roman: ga'ál
lang: Hindi
word: उबारना
roman: ubārnā
lang: Hindi
word: उद्धार करना
roman: uddhār karnā
lang: Icelandic
word: ánauðarfrelsun
lang: Indonesian
word: untuk membebaskan
lang: Irish
word: fuascail
lang: Irish
word: saor
lang: Italian
word: emancipare
lang: Italian
word: emanciparsi
lang: Japanese
word: 解放する
roman: kaihō suru
lang: Latin
word: ēmancipō
lang: Latin
word: asserō
lang: Latin
word: eximō
lang: Latin
word: līberō
lang: Latin
word: manūmittō
lang: Latin
word: vindicō
lang: Macedonian
word: еманципира
roman: emancipira
lang: Maltese
word: emanċipa
lang: Norwegian
word: å frigjøre
lang: Polish
word: emancypować
lang: Polish
word: wyemancypować
lang: Polish
word: wyzwolić
lang: Portuguese
word: emancipar
lang: Romanian
word: emancipa
lang: Romanian
word: dezlega
lang: Romanian
word: dezrobi
lang: Romanian
word: elibera
lang: Russian
word: эмансипи́ровать
roman: emansipírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: освобожда́ть
roman: osvoboždátʹ
lang: Russian
word: освободи́ть
roman: osvobodítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: emancipar
lang: Spanish
word: manumitir
lang: Swahili
word: komboa
lang: Swedish
word: emancipera
lang: Ukrainian
word: відпуска́ти
roman: vidpuskáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: відпусти́ти
roman: vidpustýty
lang: Vietnamese
word: giải phóng
lang: Welsh
word: rhyddfreinio
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 翻身
roman: fānshēn
lang: Czech
word: emancipovat
lang: Finnish
word: vapauttaa
lang: Italian
word: emanciparsi
lang: Spanish
word: manumitir
lang: Welsh
word: rhyddfreinio