verb
definition
To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
example
In schools it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.
adjective
definition
Confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.
Examples of confiscate in a Sentence
The majority did not, indeed, design to confiscate property wholesale.
A`yan with stringent orders to seize Ali and confiscate his possessions.
The one's that did neglected to confiscate Taylor's identification.
The king replied by issuing a proclamation to the effect that he would outlaw any clerk who should accept the validity of such an interdict and would confiscate his lands.
Moved at last by the great quantity of military material that was being found in the Gulf, the British Government urged the Persian Government to enforce the actual law and to confiscate the stores of arms which had accumulated at Bushire.
The source of all the evil was, he declared, the excessive wealth of the church, which, in retaliation for the sentence of excommunication, he threatened to confiscate.
Military personnel files have become more available, and a program to confiscate federal tax refunds has contributed to keeping the issue in the spotlight.
Such crude attempts as were made to prevent rates from being excessive concerned themselves with profits, and were designed to confiscate for the state treasury any earnings beyond a certain prescribed dividend.
Proponents argue that only the IRS can efficiently confiscate deadbeat parents' income and return it to children.
Abi `Amir proposed to confiscate a religious foundation and the assembled ulema refused to approve the act, and were threatened by his vizier, one of them replied, "All the evil you say of us applies to yourself; you seek unjust gains and support your injustice by threats; you take bribes and practise ungodliness in the world.
Heliodorus, prime minister of Seleucus Philopator, who succeeded Antiochus, arrived at Jerusalem in his progress through Coele-Syria and Phoenicia and declared the treasure confiscate to the royal exchequer.