What does "confiscate" mean?
Confiscate: Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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