Crossword clues for confiscate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confiscate \Con"fis*cate\ (? or ?), a. [L. confiscatus, p. p. of confiscare to confiscate, prop., to lay up in a chest; con- + fiscus basket, purse, treasury. See Fiscal.] Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
--Shak.
Confiscate \Con"fis*cate\ (? or ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confiscated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confiscating.] To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
It was judged that he should be banished and his whole
estate confiscated and seized.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit v
(context transitive English) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
WordNet
taken without permission or consent especially by public authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain" [syn: appropriated, condemned, confiscated, seized, taken over]
Usage examples of "confiscate".
OF THE MULTIPLE ISSUES in contention between Britain and the new United States of America, and that John Adams had to address as minister, nearly all were holdovers from the Treaty of Paris, agreements made but not resolved, concerning debts, the treatment of Loyalists, compensation for slaves and property confiscated by the British, and the continued presence of British troops in America.
They ranged from jalopies held together with Bondo and duct tape, hauled in for unpaid parking tickets, on up to Porsche Speedsters confiscated from drug dealers.
A senior classman at Hami High who used to confiscate his lunch money daily.
A number of cases dealt with the effect of a full pardon by the President of owners of property confiscated under this act.
The jagheers, and all the property of sirdars and others who have been in arms against the British, shall be confiscated to the state.
Parma was defeated with the use of antimatter weapons, its remaining industrial stations being confiscated in reparation, and Jerez became a principality awarded to Cheloe herself.
Keogh against the head of Cardinal Troy, shoot twenty of the most noisy blockheads of the Roman persuasion, wash his pug-dogs in holy water, and confiscate the salt butter of the Milesian republic to the last tub?
According to what I found in the database, their stated policy is not to confiscate commercial ships or their nonmilitary cargoes, or harm their crews.
She flung at me the Polyeidic paper, confiscated earlier by the palace guard.
One letter, on crinkly tissue paper, showed that as late as the Japanese-Russian War he had been caught running coal into Port Arthur and been taken to the prize court at Sasebo, where his steamer was confiscated and he remained a prisoner until the end of the war.
Certain people in Rome have never forgotten the splendid job Quintus Mucius Scaevola and I did in Asia Provincemen like Sextus Perquitienus, who can no longer confiscate priceless works of art in lieu of unpaid taxes.
Shortly after his visit, the government confiscated my old Somalian passport, and sent me a temporary travel document that permitted me to leave the country but had to be constantly renewed.
Which I confiscated this very day from a nest of conspirators over Warminster way.
Second, the raids were conducted and the books were confiscated without warrants of search or seizure or court order of any kind.
Little attention is given to the possibility that accusations might be made for impious purposes - jealousy, say, or revenge, or the greed of the inquisitors who routinely confiscated for their own private benefit the property of the accused.