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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seize \Seize\, verb (used with an object) [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}, verb (used with an object)]
1. To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
For by no means the high bank he could seize. --Spenser.
Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands The royalties and rights of banished Hereford? --Shak.
2. To take possession of by force.
At last they seize The scepter, and regard not David's sons. --Milton.
3. To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.
Hope and deubt alternate seize her seul. --Pope.
4. (law) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.
5. To fasten; to fix. [Obs.]
As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. --Spenser.
6. To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.
7. (Naut.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
Note: 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.
{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.
Syn: To catch; grasp; clutch; snatch; apprehend; arrest; take; capture.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
seized
adjective: taken without permission or consent especially by public authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain" [syn: {appropriated}, {condemned}, {confiscate}, {confiscated}, {taken over}]
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