Now chiefly poet. [ad. L. ēmancipāt-us, pa. pple. of ēmancipāre: see next.] = EMANCIPATED.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. Ii 4 b. I doe take the consideration … of HVMANE NATVRE to be fit to be emancipate, & made a knowledge by it self.
1785. Cowper, Task, II. 39. Slaves … themselves once ferried o’er the wave … are emancipate and loos’d.
c. 1800. Coleridge, Picture, 119. Emancipate From passion’s dreams.
1880. Daily Tel., 19 Feb., 3/3. He is … conspicuously emancipate from musical prejudices.
