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Disfranchise

Dif-frân'chise or Dif-frân'chise-ment, v. & n.

verbnoun

See DISFRANCHISE, DISFRANCHISEMENT.

Dis-frăn'chĭze-ment, n.

noun

(-frăn'chĭz-ment), n. The act of disfranchising, or the state of being disfranchised; deprivation of rights of citizenship or of chartered immunities.

Sentenced first to dismissal from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

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Dis-frăn'chīze, v. t.p. 385verbtransitiveTo deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular right, as of voting, holding office, &c. Disfranchised and incapable of any office in the…