- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison or any binding power.
- (v.t.) To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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