单词 | emancipate |
释义 | emancipateadj. Now chiefly poetic. = emancipated adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > free from customary restraints emancipate1605 unconventional1840 emancipated1850 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > liberated > from slavery freed1579 libertine1600 manumitted1614 enfrancheda1616 manumised1627 disenslaved1681 emancipate1785 disenthralled1848 recaptive1856 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ii4v I doe take the consideration..of humane nature to be fit to be emancipate, & made a knowledge by it self. View more context for this quotation 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 39 Slaves..themselves once ferried o'er the wave..are emancipate and loos'd. c1800 S. T. Coleridge Picture 119 Emancipate From passion's dreams. 1880 Daily Tel. 19 Feb. He is..conspicuously emancipate from musical prejudices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). emancipatev. 1. transitive. Roman Law. To release or set free (a child or wife) from the patria potestas, the power of the pater familias, thus making the person so set free sui juris. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from patria potestas emancipate1651 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxiv. 131 Requires no more of them, then Fathers require of the Children, whom they emancipate. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent ii. 11 In case a Son was dead or emancipated. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. vii. 217 The Son discharged from Paternal Power is emancipated. 2. gen. a. To set free from control; to release from legal, social, or political restraint.In modern language the word suggests primarily the liberation of slaves, the other uses being often felt as transferred from this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > free from legal or political subjection franchisea1325 enfranchisec1600 emancipatea1631 mancipatea1677 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 345 To emancipate them from the tyran. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 326 As an apprentice is emancipated by running away. a1832 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) II. 502 Individuals who have been emancipated, or have emancipated themselves from governments. 1832 H. Martineau Ireland 117 The law has..emancipated us from our civil disabilities. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 651 That the convicts should be carried beyond sea as slaves, that they should not be emancipated for ten years. 1852 W. E. Gladstone Functions of Laymen in Church 37 Suppose the Colonial Churches emancipated. a1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. ii. 84 Workmen emancipating themselves from their employer. b. absol. ΚΠ 1775 Dk. Richmond Let. in Burke's Corr. (1844) II. 29 If our [colonies] emancipate, it will..be some good to humanity. c. transferred and figurative. To set free from intellectual or moral restraint. Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > free from restraint > free from intellectual or moral restraint unlacea1555 emancipate1646 liberalize1765 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 25 We become emancipated from testimoniall engagements. View more context for this quotation 1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 152 From many troublesome and slavish Impertinencies..he had Emancipated and freed himself. 1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §14 To emancipate our thoughts from particular objects. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 558 Those evil passions..were on a sudden emancipated from control. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. iii. 54 I was emancipated from modern Puritanism. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 126 Plato has not emancipated himself from the limitations of ancient politics. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > be slave of [verb (transitive)] > enslave thrallc1275 thrall?a1366 tie1390 enthral1447 thrillc1485 mancipate1533 thirl1535 esclavish1583 bethrall1596 slave1602 embondage1607 bondage1611 enfetter1611 servilize1619 emancipate1629 beslave1634 enslave1656 bond1835 asservilize1877 1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 71 Emancipate..is, to captiuate ones selfe to another, as well as to free. 1629 H. Cholmley State Now-Romane Church 89 A wiues emancipating her self to another husband. 1752 C. Smart Hop Garden i. 195 To dalliance vile and sloth Emancipated. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1605v.1629 |
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