Search Result for "enfranchise":
Wordnet 3.0
VERB (2)
1. grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude;
- Example: "Slaves were enfranchised in the mid-19th century"
[syn: affranchise, enfranchise]
2. grant voting rights;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [1913 Webster] 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; to give the right to vote. [1913 Webster] 3. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "enfranchise": affranchise, authorize, certificate, certify, charter, deliver, disenthrall, emancipate, empower, enable, entitle, extricate, franchise, free, give official sanction, give power, legalize, legitimize, liberate, license, manumit, patent, privilege, ratify, release, rescue, sanction, set at large, set at liberty, set free, validate, warrant
