transitive verb.
To deprive of a privilege, immunity, or right of citizenship, especially the right to vote; disenfranchise.
transitive verb.
To deprive (a corporation, for example) of a privilege or franchise.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; deprive of chartered rights and immunities; deprive of any franchise, especially of the right of voting in elections. Formerly sometimes written diffranchise.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transitive verb.
To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.