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Disseized

Disseize \Dis*seize"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disseized; p. pr. & vb. n. Disseizing.] [Pref. dis- + seize: cf. F. dessaisir.] (Law) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. [Written also disseise.]

Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof.
--Holland.

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disseized

vb. (en-past of: disseize)

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Tutt eloquently, “that in this land of liberty in which we are privileged to dwell no man can be convicted of a crime except by a jury of his peers—a right sacred under our Constitution and inherited from Magna Charta, that foundation stone of English liberty, in which the barons forced King John to declare that 'No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed .

Tutt eloquently, "that in this land of liberty in which we are privileged to dwell no man can be convicted of a crime except by a jury of his peers--a right sacred under our Constitution and inherited from Magna Charta, that foundation stone of English liberty, in which the barons forced King John to declare that 'No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed .

He so disseized of his gryping grosse,The knight his thrillant speare againe assaydIn his bras-plated body to embosse,And three mens strength vnto the stroke he layd.