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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
enfranchised
adj : endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right
to vote [ant: {disenfranchised}]
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