endenizen

English

Etymology

en- +‎ denizen

Verb

endenizen (third-person singular simple present endenizens, present participle endenizening, simple past and past participle endenizened)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.
    • 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter‎:
      For it is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “endenizen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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