الإِطْلَاقُ

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الإِطْلَاقُIV signifies The loosing, or setting loose or free, and letting go. You say, اطلق النَّاقَةَ مِنْ عِقَالِهَا, or مِنَ العِقَالِ, i. e. He loosed the she-camel from the bond, or cord, by which her fore shank and arm were bound together; as also طلّقها . And اطلق الأَسِيرَ, and اطلق عَنْهُ, He let go the captive; and set him free; he loosed the bond of the captive, and let him go: and أُطْلِقَ عَنْهُ إِسَارُهُ [His bond was loosed from him], namely, the captive. And اطلق خَيْلَهُ فِى الحَلْبَةِ He made his horses to run [in the race-ground]. And اطلق النَّاقَةَ He drove the she-camel to the water: or أَطْلَقْتُ النَّاقَةَ إِلَى المَآءِ [I loosed the she-camel from her bond to repair to the water]: or أَطْلَقْتُ الإِبِلَ إِلَى المَآءِ I loosed the camels to repair to the water, it being distant two days' journeys, and left them to pasture while going thither. And اطلق القَوْمُ means The people, or party, had their camels loosed to repair to the water, it being distant two days' journeys, and the camels being left to pasture while going thither.
2 اطلق ٱمْرَأَتَهُ: see 2, third sentence.
3 اطلق الدَّوَآءُ بَطْنَهُ The medicine loosened, or relaxed, his belly [or bowels]; or moved his belly.
4 [اطلق عِنَانَهُ He let loose, or slackened, his rein; and so made him to quicken his pace. ] And اطلق رِجْلَهُ He hastened him; or desired, or required, him to hasten, or be quick; as also . (TA. [Whether the pronoun relate to a beast or a man is not shown. By استطلقه is not meant استطلق رِجْلَهُ as رِجْل is fem.])
5 اطلق يَدَهُ بِخَيْرِ and فِى خَيْرٍ, and بِمَالٍ and فِى مَالٍ; and , Present.T ـُ or ـِ but expressly said in the S to be with damm, Verbal.Noun طَلْقٌ; He opened his hand [freely] with good, and with property. And اطلق لَهُ مَالًا He gave him property: and he gave a thing. And اطلق صَاحِبُ الدَّيْنِ كَذَآ [The creditor remitted so much of the debt; being asked, or desired, to do so: see 10].
6 [اطلقه also signifies He made it allowable, or free, to be done, or taken, &c.] You say, اطلق لَهُ فِعْلَ كَذَا He permitted him, or gave him permission or leave, to do such a thing; i. q. أَذِنَ لَهُ فِيهِ. (Msb in art. اذن.)
7 [And He made it to be unrestricted. Hence the saying, اطلق بِهِمُ السَّيْفَ He made the sword to have unrestricted scope with them; i. e. he slew them without restriction.] And أَطْلَقْتُ البَيِّنَةَ I made the evidence, proof, or voucher, to be without any mention of the date; contr. of أَرَّخْتُهَا; (Msb in art. ارخ;) or I gave the evidence without restricting it by a date: from أَطْلَقْتُ الأَسِيرَ. And hence also أَطْلَقْتُ القَوْلَ I made the saying to be unrestricted, and unconditional. [And اطلق لَفْظًا He uttered, or mentioned, or used, a word, or an expression, without restriction: and in like manner, اطلق alone is often employed. And He used, or applied, a word, or an expression, without restriction, عَلَى مَعْنًى to signify a particular meaning: thus in the saying اطلق المَصْدَرَ عَلَى الفَاعِلِ He used, or applied, the infinitive noun without restricting it by the prefix ذُو, or the like, to signify the active participial noun; as عَدْلًا to signify عَادِلًا: and thus in the saying اطلق ٱسْمَ عَلَى الجُزْءِ He used, or applied, the name of the whole without restricting it by a prefix to signify the part; as القُرْآن to signify اللآيَة: and many similar exs. might be added: but this usage of the verb is conventional: see Kull p. 57. Hence also أَلِفُ الإِطْلَاقِ: see art. ا, p. 1, col. 3.]
8 الإِطْلَاقُ فِى القَائِمَةِ [in which الاطلاق is Verbal.Noun of the pass. v., أُطْلِقَ,] is The freedom from [the whiteness termed] وَضَح [meaning تَحْجِيل, q. v.,] in the leg [of a horse]: and some make الإِطْلَاق to signify the having a fore leg and a hind leg in one side with تحجيل; and الإِمْسَاكُ [as Verbal.Noun of أُمْسِكَ], the having a fore leg and a hind leg without تحجيل.
9 اطلق عَدُوَّهُ He dosed his enemy with poison.
10 And اطلق نخْلَهُ He fecundated his palm-trees; said when they are tall; as also طلّقهُ , Verbal.Noun تَطْلِيقٌ.

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