confiscate

VerbAdjektivin Dialogen belegt

Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt//
Vereinigte Staaten//ˈkɑnfəˌskeɪt//

To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

Verb

1
To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
In schools, it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.
We doe confiscate (Towards the satisfying of your accounts) All that you haue.
1768, Alexander Dow (translator), The History of Hindostan by Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī, London: T. Becket & P.A. de Hondt, Volume 2, Section 4, p. 63, The Persian having evacuated the imperial provinces, the vizier became more cruel and oppressive than ever: he extorted money from the poor by tortures, and confiscated the estates of the nobility, upon false or very frivolous pretences.
Why, your cavalier is a rebel—an exile, whose property is confiscated, and for whose neck the gibbet stands prepared!

Herkunft

Borrowed from Latin cōnfiscātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin cōnfiscō (“to seize for the public treasury (fiscus)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjektiv

1
veraltetConfiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.
Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum, / Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
[…] thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.
[N]ot to lay into the Exchequer, or Common Treasury, such goods as are confiscate, but to store them up as holy and consecrate things, which except it bee practised, confiscations, and fines of the Common people would bee frequent, and so this State would decay by weakening the people.
Thy goods are confiscate unto the state, / Thy name is razed from out her records, […]

Formen

Präteritum: confiscated
Partizip II: confiscated
Partizip I: confiscating
3. Person Singular: confiscates

confirmation · An official indicator that things will happen as planned.confirmed · Having a settled habit; inveterate or habitual.confirming · An act of confirmation.

confiscate · To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

conflict · A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more…confront · To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility…confrontation · The act of confronting or challenging another, especially…

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