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seised
vb. (en-past of: seise)
Usage examples of "seised".
If, as was very frequently the case, the leased land lay within a manor, the rent was parcel of the manor, /4/ so that there was some ground for saying that one who was seised of the manor, that is, who possessed the lands occupied by the lord of the manor, and was recognized by the tenants as lord, had the rents as incident thereto.
I confess that on this occasion I was seised with a violent hydrophobia.
He was seised in his bed that night and has been never since heard of.