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Definition of Excheat
1. n. See Escheat.
Definition of Excheat
1. Noun. (obsolete form of escheat) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excheat
1. plunder or gain [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excheat
Literary usage of Excheat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... Drayton, Pol. iv (Nai es). excheat, ' escheat', profit, lit. that which is
fallen to one. Spenser, FQ i. 5. 25 ; iii. 8. 16. ..."
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