EMANCIIPATE
EMAN'CIIPATE, adjective Set at liberty.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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EMANCIPATE
EMAN'CIPATE, verb transitive [Latin emancipo, from e and mancipium, a slave; manus, hand, and capio, to take, as slaves were anciently prisoners taken in war.]1. To set free fro...
EMANCIPATED
EMAN'CIPATED, participle passive Set free from bondage, slavery, servitude, subjection, or dependence; liberated.
EMANCIPATING
EMAN'CIPATING, participle present tense Setting free from bondage, servitude or dependence; liberating.
EMANCIPATION
EMANCIPA'TION, noun The act of setting free from slavery, servitude, subjection or dependence; deliverance from bondage or controlling influence; liberation; as the emancipation...
EMANCIPATOR
EMAN'CIPATOR, noun One who emancipates or liberates from bondage or restraint.
EMANE
EMA'NE, verb intransitive [Latin emano.] To issue or flow from.But this is not an elegant word. [See Emanate.]
EMARGINATE
EM'ARGINATEEM'ARGINATED, adjective [Latin margo, whence emargino.]1. In botany, notched at the end; applied to the leaf, corol or stigma.2. In mineralogy, having all the edges o...
EMARGINATED
EM`ARGINATED, a. [L. margo, whence emargino.]1. In botany, notched at the end; applied to the leaf, corol or stigma.2. In mineralogy, having all the edges of the primitive form ...
EMARGINATELY
EM'ARGINATELY, adverb In the form of notches.
EMASCULATE
EM'ASCULATE, verb transitive [Low Latin emasculo, from e and masculus, a male. See Male.]1. To castrate; to deprive a male of certain parts which characterize the sex; to geld; ...
EMASCULATED
EM'ASCULATED, participle passive Castrated; weakened.
EMASCULATING
EM'ASCULATING, participle present tense Castrating; felding; depriving of vigor.
EMASCULATION
EMASCULA'TION, noun The act of depriving a male of the parts which characterize the sex; castration.1. The act of depriving of vigor or strength; effeminacy; unmanly weakness.
EMBALE
EMBA'LE, verb transitive1. To make up into a bundle, bale or package; to pack.2. To bind; to inclose.
EMBALM
EMB'ALM, verb transitive emb'am.1. To open a dead body, take out the intestines, and fill their place with odoriferous and desiccative spices and drugs, to prevent its putrefact...
EMBALMED
EMB'ALMED, participle passive Filled with aromatic plants for preservation; preserved from loss or destruction.
EMBALMER
EMB'ALMER, noun One who embalms bodies for preservation.
EMBALMING
EMB'ALMING, participle present tense Filling a dead body with spices for preservation; preserving with care from loss, decay or destruction.
EMBAR
EMB'AR, verb transitive [en and bar.] To shut, close or fasten with a bar; to make fast.1. To inclose so as to hinder egress or escape.When fast embarr'd in mighty brazen wall.2...
EMBARCATION
EMBARCA'TION, noun Embarkation, which see.
EMBARGO
EMB'ARGO, noun In commerce, a restraint on ships, or prohibition of sailing, either out of port, or into port, or both; which prohibition is by public authority, for a limited t...
EMBARGOED
EMB'ARGOED, participle passive Stopped; hindered from sailing; hindered by public authority, as ships or commerce.
EMBARGOING
EMB'ARGOING, participle present tense Restraining from sailing by public authority; hindering.
EMBARK
EMB'ARK, verb transitive1. To put or cause to enter on board a ship or other vessel or boat. The general embarked his troops and their baggage.2. To engage a person in any affai...
EMBARKATION
EMBARKA'TION, noun The act of putting on board of a ship or other vessel, or the act of going aboard.1. That which is embarked; as an embarkation of Jesuits.2. A small vessel, o...
EMBARKED
EMB'ARKED, participle passive Put on shipboard; engaged in any affair.