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Word Meanings - SEIZURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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 o'er thy honor by a deed of trust, And give me seizure of the mighty wealth. Dryden. 3. That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

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  • PLUNDERER
    One who plunders or pillages.
  • 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.
  • RAPINE
    rapina, fr. rapere to seize and carry off by force. See Rapid, and 1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by
  • ABSTRACTION
    The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
  • SUBTRACTION
    The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
  • 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
  • SPOIL
    1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
  • SPOILER
    1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
  • SPOILSMAN
    One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
  • SPOILABLE
    Capable of being spoiled.
  • ABSTRACTIONAL
    Pertaining to abstraction.
  • ABDUCTION
    The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (more info) 1. The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.
  • ABSTRACTIONIST
    An idealist. Emerson.
  • ABLUTION
    A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. (more info) 1. The act of washing
  • DEPRIVATION
    the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
  • SPOILSMONGER
    One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
  • ABLUTIONARY
    Pertaining to ablution.
  • BOOTY
    That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order
  • SPOILFUL
    Wasteful; rapacious.
  • PILLAGER
    One who pillages. Pope.
  • DESPOIL
    despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. Chaucer. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed
  • FREEBOOTY
    Freebootery.

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