Definition of Seaze

1. to grasp suddenly [v SEAZED, SEAZING, SEAZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seaze

seaweeds
seaweedy
seawife
seawives
seawolf
seawolves
seawoman
seawomen
seaworm
seaworms
seaworthier
seaworthiest
seaworthiness
seaworthinesses
seaworthy
seaze (current term)
seazed
seazes
seazing
seb-
sebacate
sebacates
sebaceous
sebaceous adenoma
sebaceous epithelioma
sebaceous follicle
sebaceous follicles
sebaceous gland
sebaceous glands

Literary usage of Seaze

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Suffolk Deeds by William Blake Trask, Frank Eliot Bradish, Suffolk County (Mass.), Charles A. Drew, A. Grace Small (1885)
"faile Dated at Boston 1" may 1660 If yow finde not Goods y"w are to seaze his person p Edward Rawson Secret* was vnder writt I haue extended this execution ..."

2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... that so stumbling and falling in, he might lightly skip on his backe, and bridle him, and then hee come and seaze on him at his pleasure. ..."

3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1842)
"... he might seaze vpon his throate, and stifle him before he should be able to ... and bridle him, and then hee come and seaze on him at his pleasure. ..."

4. A Discourse of the Common Weal of this Realm of England by Elizabeth Lamond, William Cunningham (1893)
"... then the kinges custome should 15 be lesse, by reason that litle or no such wares should come from beyond the seaze. The most dur- " 3 ' DOCTOR. ..."

5. A Dictionary of the Art of Printing by William Savage (1841)
"... matters, and things printed, or to be printed; contrarie to the intent and meaning of these present ordinances, to seaze and take to her majesties use, ..."

6. The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617, Describing His Experiences in by John Jourdain, William Revett, Alexander Sharpeigh, William Finch, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Basil Harrington Soulsby (1905)
"But our pinnace, the Good Hope, was not able to seaze the land, with soe much winde that her sailes blew from the maste. In this place wee rid three daies ..."

7. The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617, Describing His Experiences in by John Jourdain, William Revett, Alexander Sharpeigh, William Finch, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Basil Harrington Soulsby (1905)
"But our pinnace, the Good Hope, was not able to seaze the land, with soe much winde that her sailes blew from the maste. In this place wee rid three daies ..."

8. Typographia: an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of by Thomas Curson Hansard (1825)
"... matters, and things printed, or to be printed, contrarie to the intent and meaning of these present ordinances, to seaze and take to her majesties use, ..."

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