ppl. a. [f. LIBERATE v. + -ED1.] Set free, set at liberty.

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1794.  Burke, Pref. to Brissot’s Addr., Wks. VII. 305. This liberated galley-slave.

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1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. xxi. 147. The partially liberated streams flowed … over their own ice.

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  b.  spec. in Bot. (see quot. 1888).

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1855.  Mayne, Expos. Lex., Liberatus (Bot.),… liberated.

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1888.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Liberated, in Botany, applied to a structure which is in part adherent to another and in part free.

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