CONFISCATE

a. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.

2.
v.

To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized. Bacon.

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