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2. To prove; to evince. [R.] Hooker.

3. To strengthen; to grow strong. [Obs.] Chaucer.

En*force", n. Force; strength; power. [Obs.]

A petty enterprise of small enforce.

Milton.

En*force"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being enforced.

En*forced" (?), a. Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced smiles." Shak. -- En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak.

En*force"ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. enforcement.] 1. The act of enforcing; compulsion.

He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them.

Sir W. Raleigh.

Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her.

Shak.

2. A giving force to; a putting in execution.

Enforcement of strict military discipline.

Palfrey.

3. That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.

The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law.

Locke.

En*for"cer (?), n. One who enforces.

En*for"ci*ble (?), a. That may be enforced.

En*for"cive (?), a. Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive. Marsion. -- En*for"cive*ly, adv.

En*for"est (?), v. t. To turn into a forest.

En*form" (?), v. t. [F. enformer. See Inform.] To form; to fashion. [Obs.] Spenser.

En*foul"dred (?), a. [Pref. en- + OF. fouldre, foldre, lightning, F. foudre, L. fulgur.] Mixed with, or emitting, lightning. [Obs.] "With foul enfouldred smoke." Spenser.

En*frame" (?), v. t. To inclose, as in a frame.

En*fran"chise (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfranchised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Enfranchising (?).] [Pref. en- + franchise: cf. F. enfranchir.] 1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon.

2. To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.

3. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.