Hypertext Webster Gateway: "seized"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seize \Seize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seized}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Seizing}.] [OE. seisen, saisen, OF. seisir, saisir, F.
saisir, of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. set. The meaning
is properly, to set, put, place, hence, to put in possession
of. See {Set}, v. t.]
1. To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or
grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
For by no means the high bank he could seize.
--Spenser.
Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands The
royalties and rights of banished Hereford? --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
seized
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},
{confiscated}, {taken over}]
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