Enfranchise
Enfranchise , transitive verb
[Prefix en- + franchise: compare French 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; to give the right to vote.
3.
To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. — I. Watts