Word Meanings - EMANCIPATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas .
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To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett . To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error. From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself. Evelyn. To emancipate the human conscience. A. W. Ward. (more info) emancipate; e + mancipare to transfer ownership in, fr. manceps purchaser, as being one who laid his hand on the thing bought; manus
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- EMANCIPATE
Set at liberty. - REDEEM
Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew. - FETTERLESS
Free from fetters. Marston. - SHACKLE
1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - CONFINELESS
Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak. - UNFETTER
To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind. - CONSTRAINED
Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone. - INDEMNIFY
1. To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure. The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. Sir W. Temple. 2. To make restitution or compensation for, as for - REDEEMER
1. One who redeems. 2. Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. - CONFINEMENT
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by - CONSTRAINT
The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion; - RELEASEMENT
The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton. - CONSTRAINABLE
Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker. - REDEEMABLENESS
The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability. - RELEASEE
One to whom a release is given. - RELEASER
One who releases, or sets free. - CONFINER
One who, or that which, limits or restrains. - CONSTRAINER
One who constrains. - UNREDEEMED
Not redeemed. - DELIBERATELY
With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed. - DELIBERATE
1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools." - ENFETTER
To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak. - CONFINE
To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of - RAMSHACKLE
Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray. - UNSHACKLE
To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. Addison.