Word Meanings - EFFRANCHISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To enfranchise.

Related words: (words related to EFFRANCHISE)

• ENFRANCHISEMENT
  1. Releasing from slavery or custody. Shak. 2. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold , the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley
• ENFRANCHISER
  One who enfranchises.
• ENFRANCHISE
  1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon. 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.
• DISENFRANCHISE
  To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen. -- Dis`en*fran"chise*ment, n.