[a. L. confiscātor, agent-n. from confiscāre to CONFISCATE: see -OR.] One who confiscates.
1757. Burke, Abridgm. Eng. Hist., Wks. X. 232. Overrun by publicans, farmers of the taxes, agents, confiscators. Ibid. (1790), Fr. Rev., Wks. V. 276. I see the confiscators begin with bishops, and chapters, and monasteries; but I do not see them end there.
1845. Ld. Campbell, Chancellors (1857), I. ii. 47. The confiscator of other men’s inheritances.
