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

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

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

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

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

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

We then declare ourselves seised in fee by right of occupancy.

From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

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

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

Thou wilt have no terce from my earldom, wherein I am not yet feudally seised.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

I tremble for the time when the popular educationist shall have had his way and every child be seised of the rudiments of drawing.

From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill

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

From International Short Stories American by Various

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