liberation

[Lat. liberatio, from liber at us, pa. par. of libero; Fr. libération; Ital. liber azione; Sp. liber a cion.] 1. The act of liberating or setting free from restraint, confinement, .; a setting at liberty; freeing. 2. The state of being liberated or set free. lib-er-ā-tor, s. [Lat., from liber at us , pa. par. of libero .] One who liberates or frees; a deliverer. +lib-er-ā-tor-ý, a . [Eng. liberator ; -y.] Tending to liberate or set free. tor.] Lib-er-ā-trix, s. [The fem. form of Lat. liber a Astron.: [ASTEROID, 125.] Li-bër-i-an, a, [For etym, see definition.] Be longing to, found in, or in any way connected with Liberia, an independent republic of Western Africa, settled by free negroes from the United States in 1822 . Liberian-hippopotamus, s. Zool .: Hippopotamus minor, a small species de scribed by Dr. S. G. Morton ( Proc . Acad . Nat . Sci ., Philadel., Feb., 1844), from the notes of Dr. Goheen, colonial physician at Monrovia, and from two crania which that gentleman sent to America. In 1850 ( ib . , 1850, pp. 231-39) Dr. Morton proposed to call it H. liber i ens is , the name by which it is now generally known, though" it was proposed to make a new genus of it under the name of Chœropsis." ( Van Hoeven .) It has but two incisors in the lower jaw; the posterior molars are only partially protruded, and rise obliquely like those of the elephant and mastodon. It varies in weight from four hundred to seven hundred pounds. lib-er-ō-, pref. [Lat. libero = to set free.) (For def. see etym.) †libero-motor, adj . Letting out or liberating nerve force. ( H. Spencer . ) lib-er-tär-i-an, a. & s. [Eng. libert (y); -arian.] A. As adj.: Pertaining to liberty or freewill, in culcating the doctrine that the human will is free as opposed to the teaching that it is impelled by nece ity to a certain course of action. B. As subst.: One who accepts the doctrine that human will is free. [FREE-WILL, NECESSITY.]