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Definitions: SEIZIN |
SEIZINNoun1. The thing possessed; property. 2. The act of taking possession. 3. 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 merely ownership. |
Date "SEIZIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Seizin \Sei"zin\, noun. [French expression saisine. See Seize.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Possession | Noun: possession, seizin, seisin; ownership; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency; villenage, villeinage; socage, chivalry, knight service. |
Property | Interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding; tenure; (possession); vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin, seisin. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SEIZIN |
| English words defined with "SEIZIN": Disseize ♦ Livery of seizin ♦ Primer seizin ♦ Seisin. (references) |
Expressions using "SEIZIN": Livery of seizin ♦ primer seizin. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "SEIZIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | встъпване във владение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατοχή (occupancy, occupation, possession, tenancy, tenure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eizinsay toma de posesión (entry, inauguration, takeover). (various references) besittningsrätt (occupancy, seisin, tenure). (various references) temellük (seisin, taking possession), mülk edinme (possession, seisin), kendine mâletme (seisin), el koyma (appropriation, dip, distraint, expropriation, ouster, seisin, seizure, usurpation). (various references) володіння нерухомим майном (seisin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SEIZIN": seizing, seizings, seizins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "SEIZIN": disseizin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SEIZIN": disseizing, disseizins, reseizing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SEIZIN" (pronounced 'Sei"zin'): Post-disseizin, Redisseizin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-n-s-z" | |
-1 letter: nisei, zeins. | |
-2 letters: nisi, sine, size, zein, zins. | |
-3 letters: ens, ins, sei, sen, sin, zin. | |
-4 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-n-s-z" | |
+1 letter: ionizes, seizing, seizins. | |
+2 letters: citizens, diazines, ionizers, ironizes, lionizes, nazifies, pintsize, resizing, salinize, sanitize, seizings, simazine, simonize, sinicize, siziness, unitizes, zincites, zingiest. | |
+3 letters: avianizes, benzidins, cutinizes, deionizes, disseizin, divinizes, dizziness, feminizes, finalizes, hominizes, immunizes, latinizes, lionizers, minimizes, patinizes, reseizing, ritziness, salinized, salinizes, sanitized, sanitizes, scientize, sensitize, signalize, simazines, simonized, simonizes, sinicized, sinicizes, synizesis, thiazines, triazines, unionizes, unitizers, zibelines, zincifies, zinkifies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 49 5A 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . .. --.. .. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000101 01001001 01011010 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E I Z I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 0049 005A 0049 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)533943604348 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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