† enfranchv.
Obsolete.
= enfranchise v.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from slavery
manumitc1455
manumise1523
enfranchise1531
enfranch1581
unthrallc1595
unslavea1618
disenthral1636
unenslave1644
disenslave1649
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from confinement
unbindc950
to let freec1000
aletOE
to let out1154
loosea1225
slakec1374
loosen1382
to let goc1384
releasec1384
unloosec1400
unlockc1410
dissolvec1420
relievec1450
unloosen?a1475
to set at liberty1509
enlargea1513
to let at large1525
to let loose1530
to turn loose?1566
enfranchise1569
to turn up1573
enfranch1581
unkennel1589
unwind1596
to cast loosec1600
disimmure1611
disimprison1611
unhamper1620
to let abroad1633
unfold1633
disencloister1652
disencage1654
discagea1657
disincarcerate1665
eliminate1745
unspherea1806
unmew1818
unbottle1821
uncage1837
unbag1854
bust1921
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 193 By him we be enfraunched from the captivitie and thraldome of the Divell.
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia ii. 67 The soueraignty of thy worth, enfranches Thy captiue beauty.
Derivatives
enˈfranched adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > liberated > from slavery
freed1579
libertine1600
manumitted1614
enfrancheda1616
manumised1627
disenslaved1681
emancipate1785
disenthralled1848
recaptive1856
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 151 He has Hiparchus, my enfranched Bondman, whom He may at pleasure whip. View more context for this quotation
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ix. xliii. 132 Little caps, and shaved head..infranched bondmens guise.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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v.1581- to lay into
- to lay into or in one
- to lay it on
- to lay it on the jack of
- to lay it on the jack of a person
- to lay it on the line
- to lay it on thick
- to lay it on thick, with a trowel
- to lay it on with a trowel
- to lay it over
- to lay lake
- to lay land dry, under water
- to lay leaven
- to lay leavens
- to lay load about or about one
- to lay load on or upon
- to lay low
- to lay moyen
- to lay moyens
- to lay neck and heels
- to lay odds
- to lay off
- to lay on
- to lay on board
- to lay on by load