frenchise

English

Etymology

french +‎ -ise

Noun

frenchise (plural frenchises)

1. Obsolete spelling of franchise.
   • 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:

     […] 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.

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

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

Anagrams

• Frenchies