Enfranchise
Pronunciation : En*fran"chise
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Pref. en- + franchise: cf. F. enfranchir.]
Definition : 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.
t. [imp. & p. p. Enfranchised; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfranchising.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913