Crossword clues for sequester
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sequester \Se*ques"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sequestering.] [F. s['e]questrer, 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.]
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(Law) 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.
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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.
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To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.
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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. (Chem.) To bind, so as to make [a metal ion] unavailable in its normal form; -- said of chelating agents, such as EDTA, which, in a solution, bind tightly to multivalent metal cations, thereby lowering their effective concentration in solution. Compounds employed particularly for this purpose are called sequestering agents, or chelating agents. In biochemistry, sequestration is one means of reversibly inhibiting enzymes which depend on divalent metal cations (such as Magnesium) for their activity. Such agents are used, for example, to help preserve blood for storage and subsequent use in transfusion. >
Sequester \Se*ques"ter\, v. i.
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To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics.
--Milton. (Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Sequester \Se*ques"ter\, n.
Sequestration; separation. [R.]
(Law) 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.(Med.) Same as Sequestrum.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "remove" something, "quarantine, isolate" (someone); "excommunicate;" also intransitive, "separate oneself from," from Old French sequestrer (14c.), from Late Latin sequestrare "to place in safekeeping," from Latin sequester "trustee, mediator," noun use of an adjective meaning "intermediate," which probably is related to sequi "to follow" (see sequel). Meaning "seize by authority, confiscate" is first attested 1510s. Alternative sequestrate (v.) is early 15c., from Latin sequestratus. Related: Sequestered; sequestering.
Wiktionary
n. 1 sequestration; separation 2 (context legal English) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee. 3 (context medicine English) A sequestrum. vb. 1 To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw. 2 To separate in order to store. 3 To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. 4 (context chemistry English) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound 5 (context legal English) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims. 6 To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc. 7 (context transitive US politics legal English) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget. 8 (context international legal English) To seize and hold enemy property. 9 (context intransitive English) To withdraw; to retire. 10 To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
WordNet
v. requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"
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" [syn: impound, attach, confiscate, seize]
undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"
keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw]
set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" [syn: sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate]
Wikipedia
Sequester is a Canadian heavy metal project created by Ryan Boc in 2005. Ryan Boc remains the sole member, writing and performing all of the material thus far. The music also draws inspiration from other genres such as progressive and psychedelic rock, traditional English and Scottish folk, grunge, alternative rock, blues, jazz, and classical. Common lyrical themes include fantasy, history, folklore, mythology, human nature, and spirituality; they are sung in a clean voice but often with thrashy, more aggressive overtones. The songs are usually polyphonic, long in duration due to complex structuring and arrangement, and frequently contain harmonized vocal and guitar layering.
Usage examples of "sequester".
Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues.
A similar Ordinance sequestered the restored property of emigrant families.
He accepted, with pleasure, the useful reinforcement of hardy workmen, who labored in the gold mines of Thrace, for the emolument, and under the lash, of an unfeeling master: and these new associates conducted the Barbarians, through the secret paths, to the most sequestered places, which had been chosen to secure the inhabitants, the cattle, and the magazines of corn.
Cobb, a widow lady, who lived in an agreeable sequestered place close by the town, called the Friary, it having been formerly a religious house.
I told myself there was one more day to race, and after dinner I stayed sequestered, got my hydration and my rubdown, and went to bed.
On the sequestered slopes of the low mountain valleys green mosses once more carpeted the earth, buttercups and dandelions peeped pale golden eyes from the ground, in the teeming crevices of the high promontories delicate green and crimson lichens wove a marvellous lacery, and wherever the sun poured its encouraging springtime light beauteous small star- and bell-shaped flowers burst into an effulgence of pale rose and glistening white bloom.
This caused the Seraphim to falter, and Xavier pushed through the gate into the walled religious retreat where Serena had sequestered herself for so long.
Bremen, sequestered certain revenues belonging to this city, in Stade and Ferden, till these claims should be satisfied.
While the common people, with the lively vehemence of their Campanian blood, were thus pushing, scrambling, hurrying on--yet, amidst all their eagerness, preserving, as is now the wont with Italians in such meetings, a wonderful order and unquarrelsome good humor, a strange visitor to Arbaces was threading her way to his sequestered mansion.
Gantrix, has asked me to come to Section B of your Library and, if you will cooperate, sequester all manuscripts still extant dealing with the Anarch Peak.
Still, that I was not apprized, each hour, of her condition, that her state was lonely and sequestered, were sources of disquiet, the obvious remedy to which was her coming to New-York.
At the same time, knowing how impartial the bailiff was, he begged him to accompany the doctors and officials to the convent, and to be present at the exorcisms, and should any sign of real possession manifest itself, to sequester the afflicted nuns at once, and cause them to be examined by other persons than Mignon and Barre, whom he had such good cause to distrust.
The very evidence of neglect around, the very weeds and grass on the half-obliterated road, touched Maltravers with a sort of pitying and remorseful affection for his calm and sequestered residence.
Madame de Rubine than the sequestered situation of this beautiful retreat.
All were printed on Terra, possibly -- some certainly -- a millennium ago, sequestered and preserved as a legacy by the terracentric Order.