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▪ I. confiscate, ppl. a.
(see the vb.)
[ad. L. confiscāt-us, pa. pple. of confiscāre: see confisk.]
1. Of property: Appropriated to the use of the sovereign or the public, adjudged forfeited. (Chiefly as pa. pple.)
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. iii. (R.), I knowe..how thou art banished from Rome and all thy goods confiscate. 1555Eden Decades 36 Both the brethren are cast in prison with their goodes confiscate. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 332 Thy lands and goods Are by the Lawes of Venice confiscate Vnto the state of Venice. 1611― Cymb. v. v. 323 And let it be confiscate all. 1694Child Disc. Trade (ed. 4) 259 All their money should be confiscate to the publick. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. v. i. 485 Thy goods are confiscate unto the state.
2. Deprived of property as forfeited.
a1618Raleigh Prerog. Parl. 31 Lancaster, Latimer, and Sturry were confiscate and banished. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) I. i. i. 8 That Century is quite confiscate, fallen bankrupt.
▪ II. confiscate, v.|ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt, -ˈfɪskeɪt|
[f. L. confiscāt- ppl. stem of confiscāre: see the earlier confisk, through French. Confiscate, as the direct representative of L. confiscātus, was used as a ppl. adj. before the verb was introduced, and afterwards still continued to be a form of the pa. pple. = confiscated: see prec.
As in other words of the same form, compensate, concentrate, contemplate, etc., the stress is now usually on the first syllable, but till c 1864 the dictionaries had only conˈfiscate, Knowles (1835) alone giving ˈconfiscate as an alternative. This was also the ordinary usage of the poets, though both forms occur in Shakespeare and in Byron.]
1. trans. To appropriate (private property) to the sovereign or the public treasury by way of penalty.
1533–96[see prec.]. 1552Huloet, Confiscate or forfaite a mans goodes, Publico. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 78 The Emperor Emanuel..did in one day confiscat al the goods of the Venetian merchants within his empire. 1682Burnet Rights Princes i. 21 Which were upon that seized on and confiscated. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 125 We shall never confiscate a shilling of that honourable and pious fund. 1861Kent Comm. Amer. Law (1873) I. iii. 63 The right to confiscate debts was admitted as a doctrine of national law.
†b. To take away by exercise of authority from the individual (what belongs to him). Obs.
1641Milton Reform. ii. (1851) 51 By proscribing, and confiscating from us all the right we have to our owne bodies, goods and liberties.
†2. To deprive (a person) of his property as forfeited to the State. Obs.
a1618Raleigh Prerog. Parl. (1628) 36 The forenamed Lords..were condemned and confiscate. 1618Bolton Florus iii. ix. 196 The motion, to confiscate that Prince, though..in league with them. a1662Heylin Hist. Presbyt. ix. (1670) 331 He..breaking Prison, was confiscated, proclaimed Traytor.
†3. To forfeit to the sovereign or state. Also fig. Obs.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 102 By your swearing and forswearing in bargayning, you haue confiscated your soules long agoe. 1641Cheke's Hurt Sedit. Life C ij b, This he had not confiscate to the Queene.
4. loosely. To seize as if by authority; to take forcible possession of, to appropriate summarily.
1819Byron Juan ii. cxxvi, The cargoes he confiscated. 1865Livingstone Zambesi vi. 148 He was declared a prisoner, and his cargo and ship confiscated. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. iii. (1880) 39 The King confiscated to himself the property of those who took refuge abroad. Mod. colloq. The college authorities have confiscated every copy of the paper.
Hence ˈconfiscating vbl. n., and ppl. a.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Confiscacion, forfeiture, confiscating. 1796Burke Let. Noble Ld. Wks. VIII. 39 The bad times of confiscating princes..or confiscating demagogues. |