English-Thai Dictionary

enfranchise

VT ให้ มี สิทธิ เลือกตั้ง  ให้ สิทธิ เลือกตั้ง  hai-me-sid-ti-lueak-tang

 

enfranchisement

N การ ให้ สิทธิพิเศษ 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ENFRANCHISED

pp. Set free; released from bondage. 1. Admitted to the rights and privileges of freemen.

 

ENFRANCHISEMENT

n.Release from slavery or custody. 1. The admission of persons to the freedom of a corporation or state; investiture with the privileges of free citizens; the incorporating of a person into any society or body politic.

 

ENFRANCHISER

n.One who enfranchises.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ENFRANCHISE

En *fran "chise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfranchised; p. pr. & vb. n.Enfranchising. ] Etym: [Pref. en- + franchise: cf. F. enfranchir.]

 

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. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.

 

ENFRANCHISEMENT

ENFRANCHISEMENT En *fran "chise *ment, n.

 

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 (Eng. Law ), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

 

ENFRANCHISER

ENFRANCHISER En *fran "chis *er, n.

 

Defn: One who enfranchises.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

enfranchise

en fran chise |enˈfranˌCHīz ɪnˈfrænˌtʃaɪz | ▶verb [ with obj. ] give the right to vote to: a proposal that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections. • historical free (a slave ). DERIVATIVES en fran chise ment noun ORIGIN late Middle English (formerly also as infranchise ): from Old French enfranchiss-, lengthened stem of enfranchir, from en- (expressing a change of state ) + franc, franche ‘free. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

enfranchise

enfranchise |ɪnˈfran (t )ʃʌɪz, ɛn- | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 give the right to vote to: a proposal that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections. • historical give (a town ) the right to be represented in Parliament. 2 historical free (a slave ). DERIVATIVES enfranchisement noun ORIGIN late Middle English (formerly also as infranchise ): from Old French enfranchiss-, lengthened stem of enfranchir, from en- (expressing a change of state ) + franc, franche ‘free ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

enfranchise

enfranchise verb 1 women were enfranchised in Manitoba in 1916: give the vote to, give suffrage to, grant suffrage to. 2 historical he enfranchised his slaves: emancipate, liberate, free, set free, release; unchain, unyoke, unfetter, unshackle.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

enfranchise

enfranchise verb 1 women over thirty were enfranchised in 1918: give voting rights to, give the vote to, give suffrage to, grant suffrage to, grant franchise to. ANTONYMS disenfranchise. 2 historical he is said to have enfranchised his slaves: emancipate, liberate, free, set free, release, empower; unchain, unyoke, unfetter, unshackle; naturalize, grant citizenship to, confer citizenship on; historical manumit; rare affranchise, disenthral, citizenize. ANTONYMS enslave.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

enfranchise

en fran chise /ɪnfrǽn (t )ʃaɪz /動詞 他動詞 1 ｟かたく ｠〈人 〉に投票 [選挙 ]権を与える (↔dis (en )franchise ).2 〈奴隷など 〉を解放する .

 

enfranchisement

en fr á n chise ment 名詞 U 1 ｟かたく ｠投票 [選挙 ]権付与 .2 (奴隷などの )解放 .