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Meaning of DISSEIZE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Dis*seize"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disseized}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Disseizing}.] [Pref. dis- + seize: cf. F. dessaisir.]
(Law)
To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust
wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed
by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. [Written
also {disseise}.]
      Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold
      those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them
      thereof.                                 --Holland.
 
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