a. [f. L. type *confiscātōr-ius, f. confiscātōr-: see prec. and -ORY.]
1. Of the nature of, or tending to, confiscation.
a. 1797. Burke, Lett. to R. Burke (T.). Those terrible, confiscatory, and exterminatory periods.
1864. Realm, 30 March, 2. The heavy and almost confiscatory tax.
1881. Times, 21 April, 9/3. The indirect, but not less real, confiscatory effect of the provisions for fixing rent.
2. colloq. Robbing under legal authority.
1886. Pall Mall G., 30 Sept., 10/1. To the unreasonable, plundering, confiscatory landlords.
