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   Seize , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Seizing.] [OE. seisen, saisen, OF. seisir, saisir, F. saisir, of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. set. The meaning is properly, to set, put, place, hence, to put in possession of. See Set, v. t.]
   To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
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   For by no means the high bank he could seize.
   Spenser.
   
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   Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands
   The royalties and rights of banished Hereford?
   Shak.
   
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   To take possession of by force.
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   At last they seize
   The scepter, and regard not David's sons.
   Milton.
   
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   To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.
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   Hope and deubt alternate seize her seul.
   Pope.
   
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   (law) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.
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   To fasten; to fix. [Obs.]
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   As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws
   Upon the carcass of some beast too weak.
   Spenser.
   
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   To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.
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   (Naut.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
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   ☞ This word, by writers on law, is commonly written seise, in the phrase to be seised of (an estate), as also, in composition, disseise, disseisin.
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   To be seized of, to have possession, or right of possession; as, A B was seized and possessed of the manor of Dale. “Whom age might see seized of what youth made prize.” Chapman. -- To seize on or To seize upon, to fall on and grasp; to take hold on; to take possession of suddenly and forcibly.
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   Syn. -- To catch; grasp; clutch; snatch; apprehend; arrest; take; capture.
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