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Denʹizen

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A made citizen—i.e. an alien who has been naturalised by letters patent. (Old French deinzein; Latin de-intus, from within.)

“A denizen is a kind of middle state, between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of both.”—Blackstone: Cómmentaries, book i. chap. x. p. 374.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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