confisticate

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Thus, ax is reprobated when ask is intended; Americans were to say wainscot, not winch-cott; resin, not rozum; chimney, not chimbly; confiscate, not confisticate.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.

You will therefore perceive that they didn't confisticate him much.

From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 2: War by Ward, Artemus