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
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
