sequestration, requisition
(noun) seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
segregation, sequestration
(noun) the act of segregating or sequestering; “sequestration of the jury”
sequestration
(noun) a writ that authorizes the seizure of property
sequestration
(noun) the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sequestration (countable and uncountable, plural sequestrations)
The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.
Source: Wiktionary
Seq`ues*tra"tion, n. Etym: [L. sequestratio: cf. F. séquestration.]
1. (a) (Civil & Com. Law) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary. (b) (Chancery) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court. (c) (Eccl. Law) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with. Craig. Tomlins. Wharton. (d) (Intrnat. Law) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy. Burrill.
2. The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society. Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome sequestration have I had. Shak.
3. Disunion; disjunction. [Obs.] Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 January 2025
(noun) a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; “they run things by the book around here”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
