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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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... city or town; more or less as the place deserveth, but not long; nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one end and part of the town, to another; which is a great adamant of acquaintance. Let him sequester himself, from the company of his countrymen, and diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation where he travelleth. Let him, upon his removes from one place to another, procure recommendation to some person of quality, residing in the ...

— Essays - The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. - Verulam Viscount St. Albans • Francis Bacon

... Lords," he said, to those who were 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

... This argues fruitfulnesse, and liberall heart: Hot, hot, and moyst. This hand of yours requires A sequester from Liberty: Fasting, and Prayer, Much Castigation, Exercise deuout, For heere's a yong, and sweating Diuell heere That commonly rebels: 'Tis a good hand, ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... traitor's voice I hear? W. Come bring thy boat. CH. No, sir. W. No! sirrah, why? CHA. The blest will disagree, and fiends will mutiny At thy, at thy [un]numbred treachery. W. Villain, I have a pass which who disdains, I will sequester the Elizian plains. CHA. Woes me, ye gentle shades! where shall I dwell? He's come! It is not safe to ...

— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace

... equity, that you will be the 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 asylum in ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I • Various

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