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Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. "By his own election led to ill." Daniel.

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.

Set at liberty.

To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.

ofitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty. That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Num. xxxvi. 8. To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Heb. xi. 25.

etting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty. Give enlargement to the swain. Shak.

Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends. Shak.

as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation. To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate . . . is a safe way. Bacon.

"vor*a*bly, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. Burke.

desire. I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Shak. Feeding him with the hope of liberty. Knolles.

To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego. For sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty At your request. Chaucer. And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent. Spenser.

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. [Obs.] Spenser.

The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. Burrill.

The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights. Abbot.

lses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. Locke.

The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence. Made captive, yet deserving freedom more. Milton.

One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.

The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

nstruments are given. -- Full sea, high water. -- Full swing, free course; unrestrained liberty; "Leaving corrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its own extravagant actings." South (Colloq.) -- In full, at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out in words, and not indicated by figures. -- In full…

son. My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. Swift.