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free not in bondage or subject to control from outside. OE.
frēo = OFris., OS., OHG.
frī (Du.
vrij, G.
frei), ON. *
frīr as in
frjáls free :- *
frīhals ‘free-necked’), Goth.
freis :- Gmc. *
frijaz :- IE. *
prijos, the stem of which is repr. also by Skr.
priyá- dear, W.
rhydd free, OSl.
prijatelī friend, OE.
frēoġan love, set free, Goth.
frijōn love; cf.
FRIEND. The primary sense is ‘dear’.
freebooter piratical adventurer. XVI. — Du.
vrijbuiter.
freedom OE.
frēodōm.
freeholder XV. tr. AN.
fraunc tenaunt ‘free tenant’, one who possesses a
freehold estate, AN.
fraunc tenement ‘free holding’.
free-lance military adventurer. XIX; later esp. fig.
freely OE.
frēolīċe.
freeman OE.
frēoman.
freemason †skilled worker in stone (perh. orig. one emancipated from the control of guilds) XIV; member of a fraternity which grew out of a practice of admitting to societies of stonemasons other persons not of that craft (first called
accepted masons) XVII.
freestone fine-grained sandstone or limestone. XIV. tr. OF.
franche piere, AL.
lapis liber, the adj. meaning ‘of superior quality’.
free thinker one who refuses to submit his reason to the control of authority. XVII.
free thought XVIII.
freewill unrestrained choice, (theol.) power of directing one's actions without constraint by necessity. XIII.
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