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Sequester

verb

(past & past part. sequestered; pres. part. sequestering)

Requisition forcibly, as of enemy property.

Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority. Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize. "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment" , "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"

Undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion.

Keep away from others. Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw.

Set apart from others. Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart.

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"Sequester" Quotes from Famous Books

... in hand with Thought, In woodland paths, and lone sequester'd shades, What time the sunny banks and mossy glades, With dewy wreaths of early violets wrought, Into the air their fragrant incense fling, To greet the triumph of the youthful Spring. Lo, where she comes! 'scaped from the icy lair Of hoary Winter; wanton, free, and fair! Now smile the heavens ...

— Poems • Frances Anne Butler

... the arrest of Nicholas Burton aforesaid, immediately all the goods and merchandize which he brought with him into Spain by the way of traffic, were (according to their common usage) seized, and taken into the sequester; among which they also rolled up much that appertained to another English merchant, wherewith he was credited as factor. Whereof so soon as news was brought to the merchant as well of the imprisonment of his factor, as of the ...

— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox

... from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of ...

— Graded Memory Selections • Various

... liberty, my friend. Thou shalt be freed from base Priuli's tyranny, And thy sequester'd fortunes heal'd again: I shall be free from those opprobrious wrongs That press me now, and bend my spirit downward; All Venice free, and every growing merit Succeed to its just right: fools shall be pull'd From wisdom's ...

— Venice Preserved - A Tragedy • Thomas Otway

... right of society to the labour of individuals, and considered retirement as a desertion of duty. Others readily allowed that there was a time when the claims of the publick were satisfied, and when a man might properly sequester himself to review his life and purify his ...

— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell

Words linked to "Sequester" : garnish, chemistry, insulate, sequestration, divide, part, chemical science, distrain, adjourn, disunite, condemn, take, retire, withdraw, change, separate, garnishee