Emancipate

v. t. [imp. & p. p. EMANCIPATED; p. pr. & vb. n. EMANCIPATING.] [Lat. emancipare, emancipatum, from e, out, and mancipare, to transfer ownership in, mancipium, a formal purchase, in which the buyer laid his hand on the thing bought, and hence, property, slave, from manus, hand, and capere, to take; It. emancipare, Pr., Sp., & Pg. emancipar, Fr. émanciper.]

1. To set free from servitude or slavery by voluntary act; to free from any restraint or control; to liberate; to restore from bondage to freedom; as, to emancipate a slave.
2. To free from any thing which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.

From how many ... impertinences he had emancipated himself. Evelyn.