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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.
Definition 2024
sequester
sequester
English
Verb
sequester (third-person singular simple present sequesters, present participle sequestering, simple past and past participle sequestered)
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
- Hooker
- when men most sequester themselves from action
- To separate in order to store.
- The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- Francis Bacon
- I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.
- Francis Bacon
- (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
- (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
- To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- South
- It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
- South
- (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
- (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
- (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
- Milton
- to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
- Milton
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Translations
to separate from all external influence
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to separate in order to store
(chemistry) to prevent an ion from behaving normally
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Related terms
- sequestrable adjective
- sequestered adjective
- sequestrate verb
- sequestration noun
- sequestrator noun
Synonyms
Noun
sequester (plural sequesters)
- sequestration; separation
- (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
- (medicine) A sequestrum.