frenchise

plural frenchises

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of franchise.

   Meetings of Freemen legally & peaceably assembled to Petition Congress for the Elective Frenchise not to be taken away by law, […]

   2008, Steven Hahn, Land and labor, 1865, University of North Carolina Press, page 472

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   […] the clerk of the Sebastian Circuit Court issued a writ of quo warranto, against the appellee, Raphael M. Johnson, requiring him to show by what authority or warrant, he exercises the office and frenchise of Mayor of the City of Fort Smith, in the county of Sebastian, in this State.

   1857, Reports of cases at law and in equity argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Arkansas, Volume 17, B.J. Borden, page 408

present singular third person Frenchises · participle present Frenchising · participle past Frenchised · past Frenchised

1. alternativeAlternative form of Frenchize.

   “Sacristie!" exclaimed Mr. Dupont, for even his profanity had become Frenchised, “what has happened?”

   1888, John Chester, Ruth, the Christian Scientist: Or, The New Hygeia, page 214

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   These Advantages cannot now, it is true, be recoverd: An Emperor of Germany is now chosen, I shall not say legally chosen, by the Influence of France; the Empire is now full of French or Frenchised Armies; and the Queen of Hungary has been stript of a great Part of her Father's Dominions.

   1742 October, “Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Political Club”, in London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, page 474

   That the bishop not being in the secret had acted with reserve and caution, and would do nothing without the queen's special commands; whereas the earl of Strafford not only was forward to venture and undertake any thing, as he expresses himself in one of his letters, to be the tool of a Frenchised ministry; but in many instances had gone beyond his instructions, and advised the most pernicious measures.

   1811, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England