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verb
Sequester  v. t.  (past & past part. sequestered; pres. part. sequestering)  
1.
(Law) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate. "Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics."
2.
To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc. "It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him."
3.
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. "I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss."
4.
To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; often used reflexively. "When men most sequester themselves from action." "A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation."






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"Sequester" Quotes from Famous Books



... anathematize him from the threshold of the Holy Church of God Almighty. We sequester him, that he may be tormented, disposed, and be delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, and with those who say unto the Lord, 'Depart from us, we desire none of thy ways;' as a fire is quenched with water, so let the light ...
— Thirty Years In Hell - Or, From Darkness to Light • Bernard Fresenborg

... first to condemn a conduct so opposite to the duties of hospitality and decency. The king cannot dissemble it, and it is by his express order, gentlemen, that I acquaint you, that orders have been sent to the ports, in which the said privateers have entered, to sequester, and detain them, until sufficient security can be obtained, that they shall return directly to their country, and not expose themselves, by new acts of hostility, to the necessity of seeking an ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I • Various

... must confess, your father is too cruel, To keep you thus sequester'd from the world, To spend your prime of youth thus in obscurity, And seek to wed you to an idiot fool, That knows not how to use himself: Could my deserts but answer my desires, I swear by Sol, ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... who would have thought of groping for the sublime in such a situation as that?—unless, indeed, it were that writer cited by Mr. Coleridge, and just now referred to by ourselves, who complains of frivolous modern readers, as not being able to raise and sequester their thoughts to the abstract consideration of dung. Hence it has followed, that most people have quarrelled with the etymology. "Whereupon the late Dr. Parr, of pedantic memory, wrote a huge letter to Mr. Dugald Stewart, but the marrow of which ...
— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey



Words linked to "Sequester" :   take, chemistry, sequestration, separate, attach, garnishee, withdraw, part, divide, seize, seclude, confiscate, set apart, change, disunite, garnish, sequestrate, adjourn, insulate, isolate



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