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reconfiscate en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + confiscate.

Meanings

1. To confiscate again.
   • Having just elected to return the arms in question to their Catholic owners, Maryland's assemblymen were not about to authorize Nicholson's order to reconfiscate the arms and risk stirring up the anger of the colony's Catholics. 2012, Maura Jane Farrelly, Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity, →ISBN:
   • The laity of England had refused to apostatise; the fautor of his schemes was dead; and then, then, as a last miserable alternative, he dropped from his ambitious height back into the foul slough of avarice, and plied all the arts of threat and of falsehood to reconfiscate the revenues of the see of Canterbury, and figured once more not as head of the Church, not as source of jurisdiction, not as lord of all, but merely as a croned robber. 1883, Martin Rule, The Life and Times of St. Anselm:
   • The hooker was pretty well plastered by the time I got to the bar and it was a simple favor to reconfiscate your purse. 2001, Robert S. Stone, Dark Waters, →ISBN, page 12:

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