seise

American  

[seez] / siz /

verb (used with or without object)

seised, seising

1. Chiefly Law. seize.

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seise British  

/ siːz /

verb

1. to put into legal possession of (property, etc)

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Other Word Forms

• seiser
  noun
• seisable
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of seise

variant of _seize

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Example Sentences

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seise seised seising

Nearer he drew, with feet that could not tire, And strong in hope to seise her as she sped.

From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock

B. Lat. to seise, give seisin or livery of land, 251, 2518.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

At once delight and horrour on us seise, Thou singst with so much gravity and ease; And above humane flight dost soar aloft With Plume so strong, so equal, and so soft.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Such toll we took of his niggling hours That the troops of Time were sent To seise the treasures and fell the towers Of the Castle of Content.

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell

I would not have him meerly seise me, and onely declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

In 1275 Robert de Montalt died seised of the manor and vill with the assize of bread and ale.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

Here the leader of the guard that had taken me seised him and drove him with me to a place 3 miles below West Chester to a Mr Hunt’s an old tavern keeper.

From Journal of Dr. Elias Cornelius, a Revolutionary Surgeon by Elias Cornelius

William Furnyvall, knight, did not die seised of any lands or tenements in the city of London nor in the suburbs thereof.

From Memorials of Old London Volume I by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Sease, xi, 38, fasten; seised, xii, 17, gained, taken possession of.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

A widow is entitled to enjoy for her life under the name of dower one third of any land of which the husband was seised in fee at any time during the marriage.

From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene Arthur Hecker

"Ethel!" he cried, seising her by the hand.

From International Short Stories American by Various

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