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seising

seising is the present participle and gerund of seise.

seising is the dated form of seizing.

Meaning of seise

Verb

seise (third-person singular simple present seises, present participle seising, simple past and past participle seised)

  1. (transitive) To vest ownership of an estate in land (to someone).
    • There a baron was created and seised by the king in a single act. His tenure was a function of his personal relationship with his lord king.1997, Nigel Saul, The Oxford illustrated history of medieval England, page 74
  2. (transitive, with-of) To put in possession.
    • He then died intestate; and I observed that his heir-at-law was not actually seised of Whiteacre, the possession of which became vacant on his ancestor's death1878, Joshua Williams, The Seisin of the Freehold, page 55
    Synonyms:
    possess
  3. (archaic) To seize.
  4. 1798, Francis Lathom, chapter 6, in The Midnight Bell, volume 1, page 164
  5. She shrieked, and endeavoured to pass him: he seised her hand, and exclaiming "my lucky stars are at length predominant," dragged her into the outer apartment.
  6. 1798, Francis Lathom, chapter 11, in The Midnight Bell, volume 2, page 46

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Meaning of seizing

Noun

seizing (countable and uncountable, plural seizings)

  1. The act of grabbing or taking possession.
  2. (in plural) Something seized.
    • The pirates buried their seizings and marked the map with an X.
  3. A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.
    • Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!”
      Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    1. Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.

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Forms of seising

pluralseisings

Questions about seising

What is seising the present participle and gerund of?
Seising is the present participle and gerund of seise.

Words near seising in the dictionary

  1. seiser
  2. seisers
  3. seises
  4. Seishin
  5. seisin
  6. seising
  7. seisings
  8. seisins
  9. seism
  10. seismal
  11. seismatic

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