单词 | disfranchise |
释义 | disfranchisev. a. transitive. To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen of a borough, city, or country, or of some franchise previously enjoyed. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > take away a right [verb (transitive)] > deprive of rights of citizen disfranchise1467 disnatural1588 discommona1600 forjure1647 unnaturalize1662 disenfranchise1664 disnaturalize1704 denaturalize1816 1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 375 How a citezen shalle be disfraunchised. 1535 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 132 He..shalbe dysfranchesed opynly at Carfox. 1542 Chronicle of Fabyan II. 483 Sir Wylliam Fitzwilliam [was] disfraunchysed, because he wolde not be shyryfe. 1638 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 126 Hath..beene disfranchised of his freedome of the same towne. 1673 R. Baxter Let. in Answer to Mr. Dodwell 86 An Emperor might..depose all the Bishops by dis-franchizing the Cities. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. 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. 1870 J. Ruskin 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. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > invest with right to vote [verb (transitive)] > deprive of right disfranchise1702 disenfranchise1893 1702 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 241 The commons ordered a bill to be brought in to disfranchize that borrough. 1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. 353 I question the power..of the legislature to disfranchise a number of boroughs. 1837 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xiv. 220 The elective franchise was restored to the freemen whom the previous assembly had disfranchised. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 55 This system boldly shook off democracy; for the citizens at large were disfranchised. 1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) viii. 100 The decayed burghs were disfranchised, and their members given to the counties. c. transferred and figurative. To deprive of or exclude from anything viewed as a privilege or right. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > be morally improper for [verb (transitive)] > lose the right to > take a right away from unrightc1449 derogate1541 disfranchise1581 disprivilegea1617 disqualify1732 deprivilege1979 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 498 We are not so mynded..as to seeke to disfraunchise you of your froward, malapert sawcinesse. 1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 191 A Prince contemning the censures of the Church, is to be disfranchised out of the Church. 1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. xliv. Ded. Disfranchized of the Rights you have so wantonly and wickedly abused. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 567 Oracles which had once been inspired became after a time forsaken and disfranchised. Derivatives disˈfranchised adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [adjective] > not having a vote unburgessed1671 unenfranchised1832 unfranchised1832 unvoting1839 non-voting1846 disfranchised1865 1865 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 166 The disfranchised agent challenged his disfranchiser. disˈfranchising n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > [noun] > deprivation of rights of citizen disfranchisement1623 disfranchising1646 unnaturalizing1647 undenizing1716 society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > [adjective] > depriving of rights of citizen disenfranchising1865 disfranchising1870 1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 378 Vppon peyne of euerych of them of disfraunchesynge. 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 13 Wise men are timerous in the disfranchishing of their judgement. 1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. 353 The disfranchising of boroughs..I consider..as equivalent to robbing the parties..of their freehold. 1870 Daily News 28 Dec. The disfranchising effect of the cumulative vote. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1467 |
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