Dictionary entry

Confiscate (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con″fis‐cate (? or �; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Confiscated; p. pr. & vb. n.Confiscating.] To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized.

Bacon.