What is "confiscators"

Usage examples of "confiscators".

Had not your confiscators, by their early crimes, obtained a power which secures indemnity to all the crimes of which they have since been guilty or that they can commit, it is not the syllogism of the logician, but the lash of the executioner, that would have refuted a sophistry which becomes an accomplice of theft and murder.

The body of confiscators, true to that monied interest for which they were false to every other, have found the clergy competent to incur a legal debt.

I see the confiscators begin with bishops and chapters, and monasteries, but I do not see them end there.

I find the ground upon which your confiscators go is this: that, indeed, their proceedings could not be supported in a court of justice, but that the rules of prescription cannot bind a legislative assembly.

The merchants did not mention that they expected any occupying Prussians to be not customers but confiscators, plundering and paying nothing at all.

The modern inhabitants are confiscators and falsifiers of high repute, if gossip speaks truly concerning them, and I freely believe it does.