Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or archaic form of
seize .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb See
seize .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, law To vest ownership of a freehold estate in (someone).
- verb transitive, law To put in possession.
- verb dated To
seize .
Etymologies
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Examples
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At which sight, he tooke such displeasure against them of Chio, that he sent certaine of his gallies to the Iland, for to seise vpon all the goods of the 24
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Pyratically and Feloniously did surprize, seise, enter into and take a snow, one ---- Laws master, belonging to His Maj'ties good subjects, and out of her then and there with force as aforesd.,
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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And Feloniously surprise, seise and take the Sloop named the
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Feloniously and Pyratically surprise, seise and take a Brigantine named ----, [11] One Moor Master, and belonging to His said Majesties good subjects, and out of Her then and there in manner as aforesd. did take and Carry away Cloths and Provisions of the Value of Two Hundred pounds.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Maj'ties good subjects, and out of her then and there in manner as aforesd. did seise, take and Carry away John Masters, the Mate of the sd.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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As she is handing them to Margaret, Chalmers attempts to seise them.
Theft A Play In Four Acts Jack London 1896
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Such, where ye find, seise fast, and hither bring.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1641
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In their bright stand there left his Powers, to seise
Paradise Lost John Milton 1641
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At which sight, he tooke such displeasure against them of Chio, that he sent certaine of his gallies to the Iland, for to seise vpon all the goods of the 24 Mauneses and to turne them with their wiues and children out of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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'Resdved, That the commissioners for coqapoundiog be Im - powered and required to seise and sequester all the estate, real and personal, of the said Lord Craven, and to receive the rents,
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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