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Webster 1913 Edition

Confiscate

Con′fis-cate

(? or [GREEK])
,
Adj.
[L.
confiscatus
, p. p. of
confiscare
to confiscate, prop., to lay up in a chest;
con-
+
fiscus
basket, purse, treasury. See
Fiscal
.]
Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
Lest that your goods too soon be
confiscate
.
Shakespeare

Con′fis-cate

(? or [GREEK]; 277)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Confiscated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Confiscating
.]
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 1828 Edition

Confiscate

CONFISCATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L., a basket, hamper or bag; hence, revenue or the Emperors treasure.] To adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury, as the goods or estate of a traitor or other criminal, by way of penalty; or to condemn private forfeited property to public use.
The estate of the rebels was seized and confiscated.

CONFISCATE

,
Adj.
Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal.

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