SEIZE Copy link • SEIZEPROP., To lay hold of with the hand, prehendere: apprehendere: comprehendere: arripere (to snatch to one’s self, to seize hastily): to seize the hand of anyone, dextram alicujus complecti (as a suppliant, etc.): to seize anyone by the hand, manu prehendere (general term); manu reprehendere (in order to briny him back): to seize a pen, calamum sumere; stilum prehendere; ad scribendum se conferre (figuratively): to seize a person, aliquem prehendere, comprehendere; aliquem arripere. To take, catch, capere (to get possession of a thing in order to keep it): sumere (to remove a thing in order to use it): prehendere (to take hold of a thing in order to hold it; all with an accusative): tangere aliquid (to touch): manus adhibere alicui rei; manus afferre alicui rei (figuratively, to endeavor to get a thing into one’s own possession; e.g., vectigalibus, alienis bonis): descendere ad aliquid (to have recourse to, when other ways and means do not succeed): to seize anything violently, eagerly, rapere, arripere aliquid (hastily): involare in aliquid (figuratively, to fly or pounce upon; e.g., in alienas possessiones). Figuratively, To fall upon suddenly (of things without life), arripere: corripere: occupare (to take possession of): invadere: incessere (to fall upon, especially of fear): the fire seizes anything, ignis or flamma comprehendit, corripit aliquid: a disease seizes me, I am seized by a disease, morbo tentor or corripior; morbo implicor in morbum incido: a panic seizes me, pavor me occupat; metus, pavor mihi incutitur; timor me incessit: to be seized by fear or a panic, metu affici; in timorem dari; timore percelli: to be seized with compassion, misericordia capi or corripi; with astonishment, stupor, admiratio me incessit: to be seized with anger, ira incendi; (ira) excandescere; ira exacui (of the most violent anger): to seize the mind, animum commovere, permovere