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Enfranchise
En-fran′chise
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Enfranchised
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enfranchising
.] [Pref.
en-
+ franchise
: cf. F. enfranchir
.] 1.
To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
Bacon.
2.
To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman; to give the right to vote.
3.
To receive as denizens; to naturalize;
as, to
. enfranchise
foreign wordsI. Watts.