1. take or seize (someone's property) with authority: "the guards confiscated his camera"
▪ take (a possession, especially land) as a penalty and give it to the public treasury:"this land was confiscated after the Second World War"
Word Originmid 16th century: from Latin confiscat- ‘put away in a chest, consigned to the public treasury’, from the verb confiscare, based on con- ‘together’ + fiscus ‘chest, treasury’.
