Word Meanings - DISSEIZIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. Blackstone.
Related words: (words related to DISSEIZIN)
- PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - DISPOSSESS
To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess - DISSEIZORESS
A woman disseizes. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - OUSTER
A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin. Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement. Blackstone. Ouster le main. Etym: A delivery of lands out of the hands - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - SEIZURE
1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make - DISPOSSESSOR
One who dispossesses. Cowley. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - DISPOSSESSION
The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall. - PERSONIFY
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law. - PERSONIFIER
One who personifies. - UNLAWFUL
Not lawful; contrary to law. -- Un*law"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*law"ful*ness, n. Unlawful assembly. See under Assembly. - PERSONA
See 8 - SEIZIN
Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means - PERSONABLE
1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. - PERSONALLY
1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; - SEIZER
One who, or that which, seizes. - POST-DISSEIZOR
A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - UNIPERSONALIST
One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal. - TRIPERSONALITY
The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity. - IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form. - TRIPERSONAL
Consisting of three persons. Milton. - MONOPERSONAL
Having but one person, or form of existence. - IMPERSONATOR
One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.