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.
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