liberateverb詞源 1/ˈlɪbəɹeɪt/

• 1

  Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.

  • Thus ſitting and ſurveying thus at eaſe / The globe and its concerns, I ſeem advanced / To ſome ſecure and more than mortal height, / That lib'rates and exempts me from them all.
  • [T]he prisoner being liberate in manner foresaid, it shall not be lawful to put or detain him in prison for the same crime, under the penalty of wrongous imprisonment, […]
• 2

  Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.

  • You need to free your mind and liberate yourself from prejudice.
  • The moſt ſanguine projector, hovvever, could ſcarce flatter himſelf that any augmentation of this kind [in the form of certain taxes] vvould be ſuch as could give any reaſonable hopes either of liberating the public revenue altogether, or even of making ſuch progress tovvards that liberation in time of peace, as either to prevent or to compenſate the further accumulation of the public debt in the next vvar.
• 3

  Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.

• 4

  Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.

  • All your Italian friends must be starving now that we have "liberated" them.
  • I announced that I was leaving with the two-and-a-half filled with with all of the automatic weapons from both camps plus all the plastique explosive, related equipment, and the pistols. They were to be used, I explained, in parts of France where the war was still going on, by Frenchmen who were still fighting to liberate their country from the Germans.
• 5

  chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesOften followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.

  • Since the reaction liberates a large amount of chlorine gas, a powerful ventilation system is recommended.
• 6

  informalTo take (property belonging to someone else) by force or theft; to loot, to rob, to steal.

  • We didn’t need IDs. We just liberated these beers from the back of the shop.
  • All members of the Black Guard must be willing to perform acts of violence before they are nominated. I had proven myself, when I was required to liberate (steal) dynamite, steal cars for robberies, and to perform disciplinary action against party members.

liberateadj詞源 1/ˈlɪbəɹet/

• 1

  obsoleteFreed, released; free.

  • The Papiſts make advantage of the Ceremonies, and thereby confirme themſelves in Popery. […] If vve vvere liberate from the Ceremonies, then might vve doe more againſt the Papiſts, and they ſhould not inſult as they doe.
  • [I]n place of eſtablishing true Chriſtian Liberty, vvhich you ſeem here to aſſert, it is evident, that you go about plainly to ſet up, an abſolute Spiritual tyranny, over the Church of God, and ſo load it vvith the Ceremonies, and innovations, a bondage more ſevere then the old diſpenſation, from vvhich vve are liberate; […]

liberatenoun詞源 2/lɪbəˈɹeɪti/

• 1

  historicallawA writ issued out of the Chancery to authorize the Exchequer to pay a debt, pension, etc., on behalf of the Crown.

  • Now (for an ende of Bailement) I will ſhewe you one forme of a Baile, and an other of a Liberate.
  • A Liberate is an originall writ iſſuing out of the Chancery, and is directed to ſome Officers that have of the Kings mony in his hands to pay over a penſion, debt, or duty. […] [I]t appeareth that there be two kinds of writs of Liberate, one dormant or currant and continuall, and another hac vice [for this time] and particular. […] If the Officer have ſufficient in his hands to pay, ⁊c, at the time of the Liberate delivered to him, he is become debtor (by act of law) to the party, for which he may have an action of debt: but after the Liberate ſued out, and before the delivery, the king may diſcharge the Officer of the kings money in his hands.
• 2

  historicallawA writ issued to a jailer to release a prisoner on bail.

  • VVith us they conſent in the Sufficiency of the Scriptures to ſalvation, in denying the Infallibility of the Church (much more of the Pope) the overplus of Merits, Service ununderſtood, Indulgencies, Liberaties out of Purgatorie, and the like.
  • For the more remote counties it was found sufficient to show the Patent to the under-sheriffs, when they came up to London to the Michaelmas law-term, and to prepare for their use a liberate, covering the prisoners in each gaol.
• 3

  historicallawA writ issued to a sheriff to release property (goods or land) from their custody.

  • Goods extended before the Party becomes a Bankrupt, and delivered by the liberate after he becomes a Bankrupt, can't be ſold by the Commiſſioners, becauſe they being extended are quaſi in Cuſtodia Legis [as if in the custody of the law], ſo as the Conuzor can't diſpoſe of them; and tho' by the Extent the Conuzor hath no abſolute Property till the Delivery upon the liberate, and at the Return of the VVrit he may refuſe them if over valued; yet that is for the Benefit of the Conuzee.
  • [G]oods taken upon an extent sued out upon a statute staple, before the bankruptcy of the debtor, through the goods are not delivered to the creditor by the sheriff upon a liberate until after the bankruptcy, may be held by the creditor against the commissioners under the bankruptcy.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• liberated