Word Meanings - DISSEIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully ; -- followed by of; as, 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

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To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully ; -- followed by of; as, 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.

Related words: (words related to DISSEIZE)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• GOLDEN
  1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• TENANT
  One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• STRIVE
  1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley. 2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest;
• DISPOSSESSOR
  One who dispossesses. Cowley.
• DISPOSSESSION
  The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.
• TENANTLESS
  Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• TENANT SAW
  See TENON
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• SAVAGELY
  In a savage manner.
• SEIZIN
  Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means
• STRIVEN
  p. p. of Strive.
• GOLDEN-EYE
  A duck , found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America is less common.
• STRIVED
  Striven. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. xv. 20.
• TER-TENANT
  See TERRE-TENANT
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• SLIMINESS
  The quality or state of being slimy.
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.
• GEMMINESS
  The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• FILMINESS
  State of being filmy.
• ERMINES; ERMINOIS
  See 4
• CREAMINESS
  The quality of being creamy.
• TERRE-TENANT
  One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.