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SEQUESTER
sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate
(verb) set apart from others; “The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on”
seclude, sequester, sequestrate, withdraw
(verb) keep away from others; “He sequestered himself in his study to write a book”
sequester
(verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; “The cations were sequestered”
impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seize
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; “The FBI seized the drugs”; “The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment”; “The police confiscated the stolen artwork”
sequester
(verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; “the estate was sequestered”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
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.
To separate in order to store.
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
(chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
(legal) 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.
(transitive, US, politics, legal) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
(international legal) To seize and hold enemy property.
(intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Synonyms
• segregate
Noun
sequester (plural sequesters)
sequestration; separation
(legal) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.
(medicine) A sequestrum.
Anagrams
• requestes, sequestre
Source: Wiktionary
Se*ques"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sequestering.] Etym: [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)
Definition: 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, v. i.
1. To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton.
2. (Law)
Definition: To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Se*ques"ter, n.
1. Sequestration; separation. [R.]
2. (Law)
Definition: 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.
3. (Med.)
Definition: Same as Sequestrum.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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