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Definition of Enfranchised
1. Adjective. Endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote.
Definition of Enfranchised
1. Verb. (past of enfranchise) ¹
2. Adjective. emancipated ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enfranchised
1. enfranchise [v] - See also: enfranchise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enfranchised
Literary usage of Enfranchised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1889)
"On the sale of property formerly copyhold which has been enfranchised, the
particulars or conditions should except from the sale the minerals and other ..."
2. The History of Roman Law from the Text of Ortolan's Histoire de la by Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan (1871)
"The condition of the enfranchised, especially in early Roman law, ... On the one
hand, in the primitive law one class only of enfranchised was recognized ..."
3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"Subsequently, however, iu the course of time, they were again enfranchised. 35.
The same summer oleo the Dians took ..."
4. The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence (1835)
"That if at any time, while any lands enfranchised under this act, shall remain
charged with an apportioned annual rent, it shall be desired to release under ..."
5. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
"WC Fulton—Women enfranchised in Washington Territory, Nov. 15, 1883—Great Rejoicing,
Bonfires, Ratification Meetings—Constitutional Amendment Submitted in ..."
6. The History of the English Constitution by Rudolph Gneist (1886)
"The enfranchised freeholders of the counties and the enfranchised citizens of
the towns now appear, after the gentry has been thus raised, as politically ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"of the State," senators, councilors, and representatives should possess freeholds
and be "of tlio Protestant religion"; enfranchised adult male taxpayers, ..."
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