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Webster 1828 Edition


Unseized

UNSE'IZED

, a.
1.
Not seized; not apprehended.
2.
Not possessed; not taken into possession.

Definition 2024


unseized

unseized

English

Adjective

unseized (not comparable)

  1. Not seized.
    • 1910, Henry James, The Finer Grain:
      The other member, by whose felt but unseized identity he had been haunted, was the unconsciously insolent form of guaranteed happiness he had just been engaged with.
    • 1921, Frederick O'Brien, Mystic Isles of the South Seas.:
      The French did both, and took all of this part of the world they could find unseized by Europe, and tamable, at not too great a shedding of French blood.