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Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.

To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen. -- Dis`en*fran"chise*ment, n.

To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc. Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised. Fabyan (1509). He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. Thirlwall.…

The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

To disarrange. [Obs.] Wood.

To degrade from rank. [Obs.]

The act of disserving; separation.

Distemperature. [Obs.]

A division of chætopod annelids in which the branchiæ are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chætopoda.]

Having branchiæ along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata. -- n.

of Drink.

Continuance; duration. See Endurance. [Archaic] Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden.

Duration. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

See Durance, 3.

During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.

An edulcorant remedy.

To enfranchise.

Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions. R. Brown.

Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii. -- n.