Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to escheat
Participle: escheated
Gerund: escheating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | escheat |
| you | escheat |
| he;she;it | escheats |
| we | escheat |
| you | escheat |
| they | escheat |
Perfect
| I | have escheated |
| you | have escheated |
| he;she;it | has escheated |
| we | have escheated |
| you | have escheated |
| they | have escheated |
Past
| I | escheated |
| you | escheated |
| he;she;it | escheated |
| we | escheated |
| you | escheated |
| they | escheated |
Pluperfect
| I | had escheated |
| you | had escheated |
| he;she;it | had escheated |
| we | had escheated |
| you | had escheated |
| they | had escheated |
Future
| I | will escheat |
| you | will escheat |
| he;she;it | will escheat |
| we | will escheat |
| you | will escheat |
| they | will escheat |
Future Perfect
| I | will have escheated |
| you | will have escheated |
| he;she;it | will have escheated |
| we | will have escheated |
| you | will have escheated |
| they | will have escheated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | escheat |
| you | escheat |
| he;she;it | escheat |
| we | escheat |
| you | escheat |
| they | escheat |
Perfect
| I | have escheated |
| you | have escheated |
| he;she;it | have escheated |
| we | have escheated |
| you | have escheated |
| they | have escheated |
Imperfect
| I | escheated |
| you | escheated |
| he;she;it | escheated |
| we | escheated |
| you | escheated |
| they | escheated |
Pluperfect
| I | had escheated |
| you | had escheated |
| he;she;it | had escheated |
| we | had escheated |
| you | had escheated |
| they | had escheated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would escheat |
| you | would escheat |
| he;she;it | would escheat |
| we | would escheat |
| you | would escheat |
| they | would escheat |
Perfect
| I | would have escheated |
| you | would have escheated |
| he;she;it | would have escheated |
| we | would have escheated |
| you | would have escheated |
| they | would have escheated |
Imperative
| you | escheat |
| we | Let's escheat |
| you | escheat |
Verbs conjugated like 'escheat'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'escheat'
becheat,
cheat,
enchest,
eschew,
estreat,
recheat,
bechat,
cachet,
chat,
cheap,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. the reverting of land to a king or lord in certain cases, c.1330, from Anglo-Fr.
eschete (1292), from O.Fr.
eschete "succession, inheritance," originally fem. pp. of
escheoir, from L.L.
*excadere, from L.
ex- "out, away" +
cadere "to fall" (see case (1)).
2. From Middle English escheat, achete, eschete (“the reversion or conversion of property to the government”), from Anglo-Norman eschete and Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), past participle of escheoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Late Latin *excadēre (“fall away, fall out”), from (Latin) ex- + cadere (“fall”). Doublet of cheat. See: French '
échoir'.
Sample Sentences
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Arms are very rigidly controlled in Scotland by the Lord Lyon King of Arms. […] Under an Act of 1592, Lyon King of Arms can escheat to the Sovereign all goods unlawfully displaying arms. [1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 477:]
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Failure to perform duties opened the culprit to charges of ‘felony’ (felonia), providing grounds for the king to escheat the fief. [2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 329:]