Word Meanings - FORFEITURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt. 2. That which is forfeited; a penalty;

Additional info about word: FORFEITURE

1. The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt. 2. That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct. What should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture Shak. Syn. -- Fine; mulct; amercement; penalty.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORFEITURE)

• Disability
• Disqualification
• impotency
• unfitness
• incapacity
• forfeiture
• incompetency
• Loss
• Mislaying
• dropping
• missing
• privation
• waste
• detriment
• damage
• Mulct
• Amercement
• damages
• penalty
• Penalty
• Pain
• punishment
• price
• fare
• retribution
• amercement

Related words: (words related to FORFEITURE)

• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• MISSEL
  Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• MISSIFICATE
  To perform Mass. Milton.
• MISSTAYED
  Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
• DISABILITY
  1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see
• MISSILE
  A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• MISSAY
  1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
• MISSTATE
  To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• MISSIONER
  A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.
• MISSPENDER
  One who misspends.
• MISSPENT
  of Misspend.
• MULCTARY; MULCTUARY
  Imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine. Fines, or some known mulctuary punishments. Sir W. Temple.
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• PRICELESS
  1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Of no value; worthless. J. Barlow.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• COMMISSARY
  An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• EAVESDROPPER
  One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.