excheat

English

Noun

excheat (plural excheats)

1. Obsolete form of escheat.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     To make one great by others losse is bad excheat

References

• “excheat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.