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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To bestow a franchise on.
  2. v. To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
  3. v. To free, as from bondage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To set free; liberate, as from slavery; hence, to free or release from custody, bad habits, or any restraint.
  2. To make free of a state, city, or corporation; admit to the privileges of a freeman or citizen; admit to citizenship.
  3. Specifically To confer the electoral franchise upon; admit to the right of voting or taking part in public elections: as, to enfranchise a class of people; to enfranchise (in Great Britain) a borough or a university.
  4. To endenizen; naturalize.
  5. Synonyms Manumit, Liberate, etc. See emancipate.
  6. The feudal law, to free from the obligations of feudal tenure, as to convert a copyhold estate into a freehold.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
  2. v. 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.
  3. v. To receive as denizens; to naturalize.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude
  2. v. grant voting rights

Etymologies

  1. Middle English enfraunchisen, from Old French enfranchir, enfranchiss-, to set free : en-, intensive pref.; see en-1 + franchir (from franc, free; see frank1). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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