The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enfranchising
Enfranchise \En*fran"chise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfranchised; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfranchising.] [Pref. en- + franchise: cf. F. enfranchir.]
To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
--Bacon.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.
To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.
--I. Watts.
Wiktionary
enfranchising
vb. (present participle of enfranchise English)