† disˈseisure, -zure Obs.
[f. disseise v. + -ure: cf. seizure.]
The act of disseising; dispossession; = disseisin.
| 1579 Fulke Confut. Sanders 685 The setting vp and worshipping of Images..was..a Disseisure of the true and spirituall worshippe of God. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. 47 To take reuenge for the spoyles and disseisures, which his hired enemies had made in his lands. 1718 Hickes & Nelson J. Kettlewell iii. xi. 213 In Case of a Disseizure of the Right Owner. |