sequestered
(adjective) kept separate and secluded; “a sequestered jury”
cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered
(adjective) providing privacy or seclusion; “the cloistered academic world of books”; “sat close together in the sequestered pergola”; “sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree”; “a secluded romantic spot”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sequestered
simple past tense and past participle of sequester
sequestered (comparative more sequestered, superlative most sequestered)
Having undergone sequestration.
• unsequestered
Source: Wiktionary
Se*ques"tered, a.
Definition: Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray.
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
6 November 2024
(adverb) in a searching manner; “‘Are you really happy with him,’ asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
