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disfranchise, v.|dɪsˈfrɑːntʃaɪz, -æ-, -ɪz|
Also 5–6 disfraun-.
[f. dis- 6 + franchise v.: probably representing an AF. des-, disfranchir, -franchiser, f. des-, dis- 4 + franchir, franchiss-, and franchiser. Cf. the synonymous disenfranchise.
For pronunciation see note to enfranchise.]
trans. To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen of a borough, city, or country, or of some franchise previously enjoyed.
1467in Eng. Gilds (1870) 375 How a citezen shalle be disfraunchised. 1535in W. H. Turner Select Rec. Oxford (1880) 132 He..shalbe dysfranchesed opynly at Carfox. 1542Fabyan's Chron. vii. 695 In y⊇ sayd mayrs tyme, Sir Wylliam Fitz-William [was] disfraunchysed, because he wolde not be shyryfe. 1638in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 126 Hath..beene disfranchised of his freedome of the same towne. 1673Baxter Let. in Answ. Dodwell 86 An Emperor might..depose all the Bishops by dis-franchizing the Cities. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 484 Any particular member may be disfranchised, or lose his place in the corporation, by acting contrary to the laws of the society, or the laws of the land. 1870Ruskin Lect. Art i. 29 They are no more to consider themselves therefore disfranchised from their native land than the sailors of her fleets do.
b. esp. To deprive (a place, etc.) of the right of returning parliamentary or other representatives; to deprive (persons) of the right of voting in parliamentary, municipal, or other elections.
1702Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) V. 241 The commons ordered a bill to be brought in to disfranchize that borrough. 1772Junius Lett. lxix. 361, I question the power..of the legislature to disfranchise a number of boroughs. 1841Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 55 This system boldly shook off democracy; for the citizens at large were disfranchised. 1862Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. viii. 100 The decayed burghs were disfranchised, and their members given to the counties. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xx. 548 The elective franchise was restored to the freemen whom the previous assembly had disfranchised.
c. transf. and fig. To deprive of or exclude from anything viewed as a privilege or right.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 498 We are not so mynded..as to seeke to disfraunchise you of your froward, malapert sawcinesse. 1585–7T. Rogers 39 Art. (1607) 311 A prince contemning the censures of the church, is to be disfranchised out of the church. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. xliv. Ded., Disfranchized of the Rights you have so wantonly and wickedly abused. 1846Grote Greece i. xvi. I. 567 Oracles which had once been inspired became after a time forsaken and disfranchised.
Hence disˈfranchised ppl. a., disˈfranchising vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1467in Eng. Gilds (1870) 378 Vppon peyne of euerych of them of disfraunchesynge. 1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. 13 Wise men are timerous in the disfranchishing of their judgement. 1772Junius Lett. lxix. 361 The disfranchising of boroughs..I consider as equivalent to robbing the parties of their freehold. 1865Cornh. Mag. Aug. 166 The disfranchised agent challenged his disfranchiser. 1870Daily News 28 Dec., The disfranchising effect of the cumulative vote. |