Den"i*zen (?), n. [OF. denzein, deinzein, prop., one living (a city or country); opposed to forain foreign, and fr. denz within, F. dans, fr. L. de intus, prop., from within, intus being from in in. See In, and cf. Foreign.]
1. A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air."
Pope.
Denizens of their own free, independent state.
Sir W. Scott.
2. One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.
3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
Ye gods,
Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes.
Dryden.
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Den"i*zen, v. t.
1. To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
As soon as denizened, they domineer.
Dryden.
2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds.
J. D. Hooker.
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