单词 | confiscator |
释义 | confiscatorn. One who confiscates. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > [noun] > by (public) authority > one who confiscator1760 1760 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. 42 Over-run by publicans, farmers of the taxes, agents, confiscators. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 223 I see the confiscators begin with bishops, and chapters, and monasteries; but I do not see them end there. View more context for this quotation 1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors I. ii. 49 The confiscator of other men's inheritances. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1760 |
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