The Collaborative International Dictionary
confiscated \confiscated\ adj. taken without permission or consent, especially by or as if by a public authority; as, the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain; teh customs agents confiscated the banned fruits.
Syn: appropriated, confiscate, seized, taken over.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: confiscate)
WordNet
adj. 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, confiscate, seized, taken over]
Usage examples of "confiscated".
In 1337 Philip had declared Guienne confiscated, whereupon Edward III announced himself the rightful King of France and prepared for war.
The King at once declared his Norman properties confiscated, but this would have to be made good by force.
Charles of Navarre was imprisoned in the Chatelet in Paris and his estates in Normandy were again confiscated by the King.
Justice and charity for the poor were to be expedited, their property was not to be confiscated without just price, and their vehicles for never more than one day.
His family possessed lands there inherited from his great-grandmother Catherine de Baliol, although these had been confiscated during the war by King Edward and handed over as a munificent reward to the captor of the King of Scotland.
Montfort on his part would make no peace with the sovereign who had confiscated his dukedom.
Craon’s properties and revenues were confiscated to the benefit of the Royal Treasury.
A ruler’s bestowal upon one noble of the confiscated property of another was a routine means of attaching support.
He paid for it with revenues given him by the King from Craon’s confiscated property, leaving it a question as to whose soul was absolved.
Turok and the other Fremen, each man holding his confiscated weapons, took positions in different alcoves overlooking the grotto.
All melange on the premises will be confiscated and reported to Kaitain.
Your own Sardaukar can confiscate the stockpiles, after which you reward CHOAM and the Guild with a portion of the confiscated spice.
The Emperor would deliver the confiscated melange as a reward to CHOAM and the Spacing Guild.
If found, the spice will be confiscated, and Korona station will be summarily destroyed.
The Sardaukar would immediately present the confiscated melange to Guild representatives on board the waiting Heighliner.