ENFRANCHISE

enfranchise. (fr) enfranchise, make free

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enfranchise. Enfranchise, v.t. to make free of a corporation

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En‐fran″chise (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfranchised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Enfranchising (?).] [[Pref. en- + franchise: cf. F. enfranchir.]] 1. 1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon.
2. 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.
3. 3. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.