The Wrong Word Entirely, # 61

Possible, but improbable:

Source: Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey (London: Vintage, 2011), p. 31

The word seise certainly exists, but, as both Oxford Dictionaries Online and Merriam Webster confirm, it is not a variant spelling of seize, but a legal term meaning ‘to be in possession of’. The context does not entirely preclude this meaning, but strongly suggests that seize (‘to take or lay hold suddenly or forcibly’) is what is intended here.

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