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Sequester   Listen
verb
Sequester  v. i.  
1.
To withdraw; to retire. (Obs.) "To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics."
2.
(Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.





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"Sequester" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the right of society to the labour of individuals, and considered retirement as a desertion of duty. Others readily allowed that there was a time when the claims of the publick were satisfied, and when a man might properly sequester himself to review his life and purify his ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell
... who might have the actual charge or custody of a thing, the Roman law recognized as possessor only the owner, or one holding as owner and on his way to become one by lapse of time. In later days it made a few exceptions on practical grounds. But beyond the pledgee and the sequester (a receiver appointed by the court) these exceptions are unimportant and disputed. /2/ Some of the Roman jurists state in terms that depositaries and borrowers have not possession of the things intrusted ...
— The Common Law • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
... freely born; And Indians bless our civilizing merit, And get dead drunk with truly Christian spirit; When heroes, skilled in pocket-picking sleights, Of equal property and equal rights, Of rights of man and woman, boldest friends, Believing means are sanctioned by their ends, Sequester part of Gripus' boundless store, While Gripus thanks god Plutus he has more; And needy poet, from this ill secure, Feeling his fob, cries, 'Blessed are ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall


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


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