Emancipate /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Emancipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emancipating

1. To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) 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.

2. 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.

   To emancipate the human conscience.

1. Set at liberty.