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SEQUES'TER, v.t. [L. sequestro, to sever or separate, to put int the hands of and indifferent person, as a deposit; sequester, belonging to mediation or umpirage, and as a noun an umpire, referee, midiator. This word is probably a compound of se and the root of quaestus, quaesitus, sought. See Question.]
1. To separate from the owner for a time; to seize or take possession of some property which belongs to another, and hold it tillthe profits hve paid the demand for which it is taken.
Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery, were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the degrees of the court. and now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of the ecclesiastecs. Blackstone.
2. To take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indiffernt person.
3. To put aside; to remove; to separate; frome other things.
I had wholly sequestered my civil affairs. Bacon.
4. To sequester one's self, to separate one's self from seciety; to withdraw or retire; to seclude one's self for the sake of privacy or solitude; as, to sequester one's self from action.
5. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity.
It was his taylor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts which sequestered him. South.
SEQUES'TER, v. i. To decline, as a window, any concern with the estate of a husband.
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. 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. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to
separate from other things.
I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss. Bacon. 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. To withdraw; to retire.
[Obs.]
To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton. To renounce (as a widow may)
any concern with the estate of her husband.
Sequestration; separation.
[R.] 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. Same as
Sequestrum.
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