What's the difference between distraint and distrait?

Distraint


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The debts, distraints and threats of disqualification through bankruptcy were the climax of a decade that had begun with courage and credit.
  • (2) It abounds in such terms as wainage , amercement , socage , novel disseisin , mort d’ancestor and distraint .

Distrait


Definition:

  • (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

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