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Webster 1913 Edition
Sequester
Se-ques′ter
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sequestered
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sequestering
.] [F.
séquestrer
, L. sequestrare
to give up for safe keeping, from sequester
a depositary or trustee in whose hands the thing contested was placed until the dispute was settled. Cf. Sequestrate
.] 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. Blackstone.
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. South.
3.
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
I had wholly
sequestered
my civil affairss. Bacon.
4.
To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; – often used reflexively.
When men most
sequester
themselves from action. Hooker.
A love and desire to
sequester
a man's self for a higher conversation. Bacon.
Se-ques′ter
,Verb.
I.
1.
To withdraw; to retire.
[Obs.]
To
sequester
out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton.
2.
(Law)
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Se-ques′ter
,Noun.
1.
Sequestration; separation.
[R.]
2.
(Law)
A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
Bouvier.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sequester
SEQUES'TER
,Verb.
T.
1. To separate from the owner for a time; to seize or take possession of some property which belongs to another, and hold it tillthe profits hve paid the demand for which it is taken.
Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery, were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the degrees of the court. and now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of the ecclesiastecs. Blackstone.
2. To take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indiffernt person.
3. To put aside; to remove; to separate; frome other things.
I had wholly sequestered my civil affairs. Bacon.
4. To sequester one's self, to separate one's self from seciety; to withdraw or retire; to seclude one's self for the sake of privacy or solitude; as, to sequester one's self from action.
5. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity.
It was his taylor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts which sequestered him. South.
SEQUES'TER
,Verb.
I.