Peised vs Seised - What's the difference?
peised | seised |
(peise)
To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
(figuratively) To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).
A weight; a poise.
(obsolete) A heavy blow, an impact.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
*:Great Ptolomæe it for his lemans sake / Ybuilded all of glasse, by Magicke powre, / And also it impregnable did make; / Yet when his loue was false, he with a peaze it brake.
(seise)
(legal) To vest ownership of a freehold estate in (someone).
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(transitive, with of, legal) To put in possession.
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* 2011 , Article 3 section 7, Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011, Official Journal of the European Union L 55/15
(dated) To seize.
As verbs the difference between peised and seised
is that peised is past tense of peise while seised is past tense of seise.peised
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(en noun)Quotations
* "To weigh pence with a peise." -References
* Oxford English Dictionary *seised
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(seis)- Where the appeal committee is seised , it shall meet at the earliest 14 days, except in duly justified cases, and at the latest 6 weeks, after the date of referral.