Adjacent Words
EnforcingEnforcive
Enforcively
Enforest
Enform
Enfouldered
Enfouldred
enframe
enframement
enfranchise
Enfranchised
Enfranchisement
Enfranchisement of copyhold
Enfranchiser
Enfree
Enfreedom
Enfreeze
Enfroward
Enfrozen
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Engadine
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Enfranchising definitions
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ENFRAN'CHISING, ppr. Setting free from slavery or custody; admitting to the rights and privileges of denizens or free citizens in a state, or to the privileges of a free man in a corporation.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Enfranchise En*fran"chise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfranchised; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfranchising.] [Pref. en- + franchise: cf. F. enfranchir.] 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. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. --I. Watts.
