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

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.…

To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate. I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. Spectator.

To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.

Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.

ditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

bishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.

To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. [Obs.] Shak.

To come down; to descend. [Poetic] But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser.

To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth. [R.]

Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [Obs.] But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires. Speed.

To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.

on; to disguise; to mask. Dissemble all your griefs and discontents. Shak. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But -- why did you kick me down stairs J. P. Kemble.

n ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left. "Distance between companies in close column is twelve yards." Farrow.

To deprive of title or right. [R.] B. Jonson.

Sudden display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.

The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone.

One who interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right.

Variegation. "Bright diversities of day." Pope.

Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.