Definition of "enfranchised" [enfranchised]

• Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise. (verb)
• Emancipated (adjective)

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• "A general synod can alone consummate the union of the churches; nor can such a synod be held till the three Oriental patriarchs, and a great number of bishops, are enfranchised from the Mahometan yoke."
• "The slaves, who were liberated by a generous master, immediately entered into the middle class of libertines or freedmen; but they could never be enfranchised from the duties of obedience and gratitude; whatever were the fruits of their industry, their patron and his family inherited the third part; or even the whole of their fortune, if they died without children and without a testament."
• "(whom we will therefore call enfranchised burghers) are in like manner of two kinds."