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
- magas
- magasse
- magatama
- magazine
- magazine camera
- magazine cover
- magazine-ish
- magazine programme
- magaziner
- magazine release
- magazinery
- magazine section
- magazine ship
- magazine story
- magazine stove
- magazine well
- magaziney
- magazinish
- magazinist
- magaziny
- magcon
- Magdala red
- magdalen
- Magdalena
- Magdalene asylum