Emancipate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Set at liberty.

II. Emancipate ·vt To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.

III. Emancipate ·vt 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.