(see the vb.), ppl. a. [ad. L. confiscāt-us, pa. pple. of confiscāre: see CONFISK.]
1. Of property: Appropriated to the use of the sovereign or the public, adjudged forfeited. (Chiefly as pa. pple.)
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel., iii. (R.). I knowe … how thou art banished from Rome and all thy goods confiscate.
1555. Eden, Decades, 36. Both the brethren are cast in prison with their goodes confiscate.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., IV. i. 332. Thy lands and goods Are by the Lawes of Venice confiscate Vnto the state of Venice. Ibid. (1611), Cymb., V. v. 323. And let it be confiscate all.
1694. Child, Disc. Trade (ed. 4), 259. All their money should be confiscate to the publick.
1820. Byron, Mar. Fal., V. i. 485. Thy goods are confiscate unto the state.
2. Deprived of property as forfeited.
a. 1618. Raleigh, Prerog. Parl., 31. Lancaster, Latimer, and Sturry were confiscate and banished.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1865), I. I. i. 8. That Century is quite confiscate, fallen bankrupt.
