Word Meanings - DISENFRANCHISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to DISENFRANCHISE)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• CITIZENSHIP
  The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• DISFRANCHISE
  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 . He was partially disfranchised so as to
• CHISEL
  A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.
• CITIZEN
  1. One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises. That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a
• CITIZENESS
  A female citizen.
• DISFRANCHISEMENT
  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.
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• FRANCHISEMENT
  Release; deliverance; freedom. Spenser.
• DIFFRANCHISE; DIFFRANCHISEMENT
  See DISFRANCHISEMENT
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• CATECHISE
  1. To instruct by asking questions, receiving answeres, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith. 2. To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof,
• ENCHISEL
  To cut with a chisel.
• AFFRANCHISEMENT
  The act of making free; enfranchisement.
• INTERCITIZENSHIP
  The mutual right to civic privileges, in the different States. Bancroft.
• FIRMER-CHISEL
  A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it. Knight.
• SET CHISEL
  A kind of chisel or punch, variously shaped, with a broad flat end, used for stripping off rivet heads, etc.
• EFFRANCHISE
  To enfranchise.
• FRANCHISE
  A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote. Election