ppl. a. [f. ENFRANCHISE v. + -ED1.] In senses of the verb.

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1579–80.  North, Plutarch, 684 (R.). Fabius Rullus … put from the Senate certaine bondmen infranchised.

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1611.  Chapman, Iliad, I. 94/3. Till her enfranchisd feete, Treade Chrysa vnder.

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1643.  Milton, Divorce, xiii. (1851), 54. The enfranchiz’d life and soul of man.

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a. 1720.  Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.), Wks. (1753), I. 49. Where the enfranchis’d soul at ease can play.

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a. 1845.  Barham, Ingol. Leg. (1877), 15. Many a mischievous enfranchised Sprite Had long since burst his bonds of stone or lead.

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1884.  Gladstone, in Standard, 29 Feb., 2/5. Enfranchised occupiers of buildings of 10l. clear annual value.

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