Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-FRANCHISE, v.t. [s as z. from franchise.]

1. To set free; to liberate from slavery. Bacon.
2. To make free of a city, corporation or state; to admit to the privileges of a freeman. The English colonies were enfranchised by special charters. Davies. Hale.
3. To free or release from custody. Shak.
4. To naturalize; to denizen; to receive as denizens; as, to enfranchise foreign words.