c 3 o 1 n 1 f 4 i 1 s 1 c 3 a 1 t 1 e 1
10 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
adjective surrendered as a penalty
originBorrowed from Latin cōnfiscātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin cōnfiscō (“to seize for the public treasury (fiscus)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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