affranchise
/əˈfran(t)ʃʌɪz
/verb [with object] archaic
Release from servitude: every slave, after fifteen years, should be affranchised...
- The emperor Hadrian affranchised the city from aurum coronarium and recognized the right to take refuge in there.
- In the mid 19th century, after the peasantry had been affranchised, a model of Heinrichshof was built by the Duke on his fields.
- In this way we therefore pray you, gentlemen, to pass such a law which releases and affranchises the Land Company from paying the Stamp duties.
Origin
Late 15th century: from Old French afranchiss-, lengthened stem of afranchir, from a- (from Latin ad 'to, at') + franc 'free'.
Rhymes
- concentration
- concentration camp
- concentration cell
- concentration span
- concentrative
- concentrativeness
- concentrator
- concentre
- concentric
- concentrical
- concentrically
- concentric cable
- concentric cell
- concentric contraction
- concentric hypertrophy
- concentricity
- concentric lens
- concentricly
- concentric main
- concentricness
- concentric structure
- concentus
- Concepción
- concept
- conceptacle