ENFRANCHISE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon.

2.
v.

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.
v.

To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.

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