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Definition of Confiscators
1. confiscator [n] - See also: confiscator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confiscators
Literary usage of Confiscators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1882)
"Tha tenants and their mouthpieces, however, finding that the "sub-confiscators"
could not play the same pranks, or play them to the same extent as they had ..."
2. The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir by Edmund Burke (1860)
"I see the confiscators begin with bishops, and chapters, and monasteries ; but I
... I find the ground upon which your confiscators go is thia ; that indeed ..."
3. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1807)
"I see the confiscators begin with bishops, and chapters, and monasteries ; but I
... I find the ground upon which your confiscators go is this ; that indeed ..."
4. The Immortal History of South Africa: The Only Truthful, Political, Colonial by Martin James Boon (1885)
"Does it ever strike these advocates of indecency, not Maltu- sians, that they
are (who would be content and continue the confiscators) but playing into the ..."
5. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"The modern inhabitants are confiscators and falsifiers of high repute, if gossip
speaks truly concerning them, and I freely believe it does. ..."
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