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noun

Sequester n.

Sequestration; separation. (R.)

(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.

(Med.) Same as Sequestrum.

verb

Sequester v. t. (past & past part. sequestered; pres. part. sequestering)

(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."

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."

To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. "I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss."

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."

Sequester v. i.

To withdraw; to retire. (Obs.) "To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics."

(Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

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"Sequester" Quotes from Famous Books

... sent to ask whether he would stand to it, "it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships be merciful to a broken reed." This was, of course, followed by a request to the King from the House to "sequester" the Great Seal. A commission was sent to receive it (May 1). "The worse, the better," he answered to the wish, "that it had been better with him." "By the King's great favour I received the Great Seal; by my own great fault I have lost it." They intended him now to come to the bar to receive ...

— Bacon - English Men Of Letters, Edited By John Morley • Richard William Church

... difficult access and a little remote, as well upon the account of exercise, as also being there more retired from the crowd. 'Tis there that I am in my kingdom, and there I endeavor to make myself an absolute monarch, and to sequester this one corner from all society, conjugal, filial, and civil; elsewhere I have but verbal authority only, and of a confused essence. That man, in my opinion, is very miserable, who has not a home where to be by himself, where to entertain himself alone, or to conceal himself from others. ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I • Various

... what man With all his plots and power can. Bags that wax old may plundered be; But none can sequester or let A state that with the sun doth set, And comes next morning ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... had mind, and am strictly forbidden by our Father that sent me, to deal in any respect with matter of State or Policy of this realm, as things which appertain not to my vocation, and from which I do gladly restrain and sequester my thoughts. ...

— Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name • Edmund Campion

... mind, what most adorns her Is her modest heart. The rev'rence of the great She merits; but her thoughts will never rise So high. She strives not after giddy splendours: The true affection of a faithful soul Contents her, and the still, sequester'd lot Which with this hand ...

— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle

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