emancipate

 
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmansɪpeɪt/

verb

[with object]
  • set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions: the citizen must be emancipated from the obsessive secrecy of government
  • Law set (a child) free from the authority of its parents: the plaintiffs had not been entirely emancipated from their father’s control (as adjective emancipated) an emancipated minor
  • free (someone) from slavery: it is estimated that he emancipated 8,000 slaves

Derivatives

emancipator

noun

emancipatory

adjective

Origin:

early 17th century: from Latin emancipat- 'transferred as property', from the verb emancipare, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + mancipium 'slave'