Part 2269

<h1>Confirmee</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con`fir*mee"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>confirm<?/</ets>, p.p. of <ets>confirmer</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>One to whom anuthing is confirmed.</def>

<h1>Confirmer</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*firm"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Confirmingly</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*firm"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a confirming manner.</def>

<h1>Confiscable</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*fis"ca*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>confiscable</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.</def>

<h1>Confiscate</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fis*cate</hw> <tt>(? &or; <?/)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>confiscatus</ets>, p.p. of <ets>confiscare</ets> to confiscate, prop., to lay up in a chest; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>fiscus</ets> basket, purse, treasury. See <er>Fiscal</er>.]</ety> <def>Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.</def>

<blockquote>Lest that your goods too soon be <b>confiscate</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Confiscate</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fis*cate</hw> <tt>(? &or; <?/; 277)</tt>, <tt>v. t. </tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp & p. p.</tt> <er>Confiscated</er>; <tt>p</tt>.<tt>pr & vb. n.</tt> <er>Confiscating</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.</def>

<blockquote>It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate <b>confiscated</b> and seized. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Confiscation</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con`fis*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>confiscatio</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>confiscations</b> following a subdued rebellion. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Confiscator</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fis*ca`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., a treasurer.]</ety> <def>One who confiscates.</def>

<i>Burke.</i>

<h1>Confiscatory</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con*fis"ca*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations.</def> "<i>Confiscatory</i> and exterminatory periods."

<i>Burke.</i>

<h1>Confit</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fit</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Comfit</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Confitent</h1> <Xpage=300>

<hw>Con"fi*tent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>confitens</ets>, p.pr.]</ety> <def>One who confesses his sins and faults.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>