All 4 Uses of
confiscate
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Again: those nobles who had seen the coming storm in time, and anticipating plunder or confiscation, had made provident remittances to Tellson's, were always to be heard of there by their needy brethren.†
Chpt 2.24 *
- That he had watched the times for a time of action, and that they had shifted and struggled until the time had gone by, and the nobility were trooping from France by every highway and byway, and their property was in course of confiscation and destruction, and their very names were blotting out, was as well known to himself as it could be to any new authority in France that might impeach him for it.†
Chpt 2.24
- Monseigneur gone, and the three strong men absolving themselves from the sin of having drawn his high wages, by being more than ready and willing to cut his throat on the altar of the dawning Republic one and indivisible of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, Monseigneur's house had been first sequestrated, and then confiscated.†
Chpt 3.2
- He and his books were in frequent requisition as to property confiscated and made national.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
to take something regardless of consent -- especially by public authority