Word Meanings - CONFISCATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak. (more info) confiscate, prop., to lay up in a chest; con- + fiscus basket, purse,

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• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• BASKET BALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• APPROPRIATION
  1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. 2.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• CONFISCATE
  Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak. (more info) confiscate, prop., to lay up in a chest; con- + fiscus basket, purse,
• PUBLICAN
  A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
• PUBLICATION
  1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
• PURSEFUL
  All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• PURSERSHIP
  The office of purser. Totten.
• CHESTNUT
  The edible nut of a forest tree of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. 2. The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. 3. A bright brown color, like that
• SEIZURE
  1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make
• CHESTERLITE
  A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.
• PUBLICITY
  The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• CHEST FOUNDER
  A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
• POST-DISSEIZOR
  A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.
• ORCHESTRAL
  Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
• ORCHESTRIC
  Orchestral.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• DISSEIZORESS
  A woman disseizes.
• UNPURSED
  1. Robbed of a purse, or of money. Pollock. 2. Taken from the purse; expended. Gower.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.