Vocabulary Word
Word: emancipate
Definition: set free; liberate
Definition: set free; liberate
Sentences Containing 'emancipate'
When Vidius Pollio, in the presence of Augustus, ordered one of his slaves, who had committed a slight fault, to be cut into pieces and thrown into his fish-pond, in order to feed his fishes, the emperor commanded him, with indignation, to emancipate immediately, not only that slave, but all the others that belonged to him.
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