Definition of sequester

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Sequester (v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc..

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Sequester :: Sequester (n.) 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.
Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
Sequestrate :: Sequestrate (v. t.) To sequester.
Sequestrable :: Sequestrable (a.) Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.
Lonely :: Lonely (superl.) Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell..
Sequestered :: Sequestered (a.) Retired; secluded.
Appropriation :: Appropriation (n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) 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..
Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
Sequester :: Sequester (v. i.) To withdraw; to retire.
Sequester :: Sequester (n.) Sequestration; separation.
Seclusive :: Seclusive (a.) Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.
Single :: Single (v. t.) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
Recluse :: Recluse (a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life..
Sequestrator :: Sequestrator (n.) One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
Sequester :: Sequester (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Sequestering :: Sequestering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sequeste.
Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc..
Religious :: Religious (n.) A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun..
Sequestered :: Sequestered (imp. & p. p.) of Sequeste.
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