Word Meanings - DISTRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

press, oppress, force, fr. L. distringere, districtum, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; di- = stringere to draw tight, press together. See Strain, and cf. Distress, District, 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon

Additional info about word: DISTRAIN

press, oppress, force, fr. L. distringere, districtum, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; di- = stringere to draw tight, press together. See Strain, and cf. Distress, District, 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. "Distrained with chains." Chaucer. 2. To rend; to tear. Neither guile nor force might it distrain. Spenser. To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement. To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISTRAIN)

• Confiscate
• Seize
• escheat
• dis
• possess
• sequestrate
• distrain

Related words: (words related to DISTRAIN)

• POSSESSIVE
  Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• CONFISCATE
  Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak. (more info) confiscate, prop., to lay up in a chest; con- + fiscus basket, purse,
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• SEQUESTRATE
  To sequester.
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• POSSESSOR
  One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world.
• ESCHEATAGE
  The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.
• SEIZER
  One who, or that which, seizes.
• DISTRAINOR
  One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.
• ESCHEAT
  escheit, escheoit, escheeite, esheoite, fr. escheoir to fall to, fall to the lot of; pref. es- + cheoir, F. choir, to The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction
• ESCHEATABLE
  Liable to escheat.
• DISTRAINT
  The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. Abbott.
• SEIZE
  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. As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. Spenser. 6. To grap with
• POSSESSION
  The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;
• POSSESSIVELY
  In a possessive manner.
• DISTRAIN
  press, oppress, force, fr. L. distringere, districtum, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; di- = stringere to draw tight, press together. See Strain, and cf. Distress, District, 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon
• POSSESSORY
  Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. Possessory action or suit , an action to regain or obtain possession of something. See under Petitory.
• POSSESS
  possess, from an inseparable prep. + sedere to sit. 1. To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold. Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. Jer. xxxii. 15. Yet beauty,
• 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
• REPOSSESS
  To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of , to acquire again .
• UNPOSSESS
  To be without, or to resign, possession of.
• DISPOSSESSOR
  One who dispossesses. Cowley.
• FOREPOSSESSED
  1. Holding or held formerly in possession. 2. Preoccupied; prepossessed; preëngaged. Not extremely forepossessed with prejudice. Bp. Sanderson.
• 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.
• SELF-POSSESSION
  The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.
• SELF-POSSESSED
  Composed or tranquill in mind, manner, etc.; undisturbed.
• REDISSEIZE
  To disseize anew, or a second time.
• PREPOSSESSION
  1. Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond. 2. Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions
• PREPOSSESS
  1. To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of. Dryden. 2. To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to