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Webster 1913 Edition
Disseize
Dis-seize′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Disseized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Disseizing
.] [Pref.
dis-
+ seize
: cf. F. dessaisir
.] (Law)
To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); – followed by of;
as, to
. disseize
a tenant of his freehold[Written also
disseise
.] Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to
disseize
them thereof. Holland.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disseize
DISSEIZE
,Verb.
T.
A man may suppose himself disseized, when he is not so.
Definition 2024
disseize
disseize
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Alternative forms
Verb
disseize (third-person singular simple present disseizes, present participle disseizing, simple past and past participle disseized)
- (law) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land).
- to disseize a tenant of his freehold
- Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. — Holland.