Word Meanings - AFFRANCHISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson.

JOHNSONIANISM
A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
JOHNSONESE
The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
JOHNSON GRASS
A tall perennial grass , valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
JOHNSONIAN
Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
ENFRANCHISEMENT
1. Releasing from slavery or custody. Shak. 2. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold , the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley
ENFRANCHISER
One who enfranchises.
ENFRANCHISE
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.
DISENFRANCHISE
To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen. -- Dis`en*fran"chise*ment, n.