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Definition of Enfranchising
Enfranchising 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.