Free
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( a.) 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.
(2): ( superl.) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
(3): ( superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
(4): ( superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
(5): ( superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
(6): ( superl.) Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; - said of the will.
(7): ( superl.) Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
(8): ( superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
(9): ( superl.) Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; - used in a bad sense.
(10): ( superl.) Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
(11): ( superl.) Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; - followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
(12): ( superl.) Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
(13): ( superl.) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
(14): ( superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; - followed by of.
(15): ( superl.) 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.
(16): ( superl.) 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.
(17): ( superl.) 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.
(18): ( superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
(19): ( superl.) 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.
(20): ( superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
(21): ( adv.) Freely; willingly.
(22): ( adv.) Without charge; as, children admitted free.
(23): ( a.) To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
(24): ( a.) To frank.
King James Dictionary [2]
FREE, n. Heb. See Frank.
1. Being at liberty not being under necessity or restraint, physical or moral a word of general application to the body, the will or mind, and to corporations. 2. In government, not enslaved not in a state of vassalage or dependence subject only to fixed laws, made by consent, and to a regular administration of such laws not subject to the arbitrary will of a sovereign or lord as a free state, nation or people. 3. Instituted by a free people, or by consent or choice of those who are to be subjects, and securing private rights and privileges by fixed laws and principles not arbitrary or despotic as a free constitution or government.
There can be no free government without a democratical branch in the constitution.
4. Not imprisoned, confined or under arrest as, the prisoner is set free. 5. Unconstrained unrestrained not under compulsion or control. A man is free to pursue his own choice he enjoys free will. 6. Permitted allowed open not appropriated as, places of honor and confidence are free to all we seldom hear of a commerce perfectly free. 7. Not obstructed as, the water has a free passage or channel the house is open to a free current of air. 8. Licentious unrestrained. The reviewer is very free in his censures. 9. Open candid frank ingenuous unreserved as, we had a free conversation together.
Will you be free and candid to your friend?
10. Liberal in expenses not parsimonious as a free purse a man is free to give to all useful institutions. 11. Gratuitous not gained by importunity or purchase. He made him a free offer of his services. It is a free gift. The salvation of men is of free grace. 12. Clear of crime or offense guiltless innocent.
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
13. Not having feeling or suffering clear exempt with from as free from pain or disease free from remorse. 14. Not encumbered with as free from a burden. 15. Open to all, without restriction or without expense as a free school. 16. Invested with franchises enjoying certain immunities with of as a man free of the city of London. 17. Possessing without vassalage or slavish conditions as free of his farm. 18. Liberated from the government or control of parents, or of a guardian or master. A son or an apprentice, when of age, is free. 19. Ready eager not dull acting without spurring or shipping as a free horse. 20. Genteel charming. Not in use.
FREE,
1. To remove from a thing any encumbrance or obstruction to disengage from to rid to strip to clear as, to free the body from clothes to free the feet from fetters to free a channel from sand. 2. To set at liberty to rescue or release from slavery, captivity or confinement to loose. The prisoner is freed from arrest. 3. To disentangle to disengage. 4. To exempt.
He that is dead is freed from sin. Romans 6 .
5. To manumit to release from bondage as, to free a slave. 6. To clear from water, as a ship by pumping. 7. To release from obligation or duty.
To free from or free of, is to rid of, by removing, in any manner.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
FREE . In the use of this adj. in the Eng. Bible notice 1 Peter 2:16 as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God, that is, free from the Law, yet servants (slaves) to the higher law of love to God. Psalms 88:5 ‘free among the dead,’ a difficult passage: the probable meaning of the Heb. is ‘separated from companionship’ or perhaps from Divine protection. Acts 22:28 ‘I was free born,’ that is, as a Roman citizen. 2 Thessalonians 3:1 ‘Pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course’ (Gr. literally ‘May run,’ as AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] ): ‘free’ means ‘unhindered’ as in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost , v. ii. 738, ‘For mine own part, I breathe free breath.’ Psalms 51:12 ‘uphold me with thy free spirit’ (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] and Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘willing’): the word means generous, noble, and the reference is to the man’s own spirit (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘with a free spirit’).
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [4]
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