Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Emancipate

Emancipate , transitive verb

[Latin emancipatus, past participle of emancipare to emancipate; e + mancipare to transfer ownership in, from manceps purchaser, as being one who laid his hand on the thing bought; manus hand + capere to take. See Manual, and Capable.]

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. — Jowett (Thucyd. )
(c)
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

Emancipate , adjective

[Latin emancipatus, p. p.]

Set at liberty.