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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under
restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses,
desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not
dependent; at liberty. |
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Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject
only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by
them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying
political liberty. |
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Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the
control of parents, guardian, or master. |
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Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest;
liberated; at liberty to go. |
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Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable
of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. |
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Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. |
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Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved;
ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. |
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Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in
a bad sense. |
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Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish;
as, free with his money. |
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Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or
troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by
from, or, rarely, by of. |
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Characteristic of one acting without restraint;
charming; easy. |
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Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping;
spirited; as, a free horse. |
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Invested with a particular freedom or franchise;
enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights;
-- followed by of. |
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Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed
without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or
appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as,
a free school. |
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Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous;
spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. |
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Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending
individual rights against encroachment by any person or class;
instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions,
etc. |
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Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free
service; free socage. |
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Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a
free fishery; a free warren. |
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Not united or combined with anything else; separated;
dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid
gas; free cells. |
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Freely; willingly. |
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Without charge; as, children admitted free. |
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To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which
confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to
disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to
free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences. |
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To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve
from the constraint of. |
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To frank. |
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