ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Set free, released:
a. from the patria potestas. (Roman Law.)
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 33. Excluding all emancipated Children.
1870. Lubbock, Orig. Civilis., iv. (1875), 152. An emancipated son ceased to be one of the family.
b. from a state of slavery or imprisonment.
1776. Adam Smith, W. N., I. III. iii. 402. A parcel of emancipated slaves.
1837. J. Lang, New S. Wales, II. 38. The writer was an emancipated convict.
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, xli. Erect, Triumphant, an emancipated slave.
2. fig. Freed from prejudices, moral or customary restraints, conventional rules, etc.
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 25 Oct., 4/2. These emancipated compositions … fail to sound as they did beneath Liszt’s own magic touch.
