Hypertext Webster Gateway: "confiscated"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Confiscate \Con"fis*cate\ (? or ?; 277), v. 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
confiscated
adj : taken without permission or consent especially by public
authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway
cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down
the drain [syn: {appropriated}, {condemned}, {confiscate},
{seized}, {taken over}]
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