[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

seize \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.
   1. 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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   2. 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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   3. 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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   4. 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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   5. 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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   6. to grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly;
      as, to seize an idea.
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   7. naut. to bind or fasten together with a lashing of small
      stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
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   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.
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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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see also:
seized seizing set to be seized of to seize on to seize upon 

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