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Confiscate
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.