See Also: sequester(medicine)
sequester(1)(dictionary)
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sequester(dictionary)
Sequester(law)

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sequester verb. LME.
[Old & mod. French sequestrer or late Latin sequestrare place in safe keeping, from sequester trustee.]
verb trans.
a. Separate and reject; eliminate; exclude; dismiss from consideration. LME-M17.
b. Orig., remove from membership of the Church, excommunicate. Later, remove from a public or official position. (Foll. by from.) LME-E19.
D. Hume Strafford was sequestered from parliament.
verb trans.
a. Separate from general access, isolate; make secluded; keep apart from society. (Foll. by from.) Now chiefly US and as sequestered ppl adjective. LME.
A. Cohen Drawing-rooms sequestered from the public's gaze. refl.: Time She sequestered herself in her house..to study.
b. Set apart for a religious purpose, consecrate. M16-L17.
verb trans. Law.
a. = SEQUESTRATE verb 2b. LME.
b. = SEQUESTRATE verb 2c. E-M17.
c. Sequestrate the property or benefice of (a person, esp. (Ecclesiastical History) a minister). M17.
verb trans. Confiscate, take forcible possession of, (goods, an estate, etc.). E16.
Times Literary Supplement A banker..whose family and fortune were sequestered by the Nazis.
verb intrans. Withdraw into seclusion, keep oneself apart. E17-M19.
verb trans. Chemistry. Form a stable complex, esp. a chelate, with (an ion) so as to make it unreactive or remove it from solution; form a stable complex with (a biochemical molecule). M20.
sequesterment noun (rare) a private, secluded condition or situation L18.
sequestrable adjective (rare) able to be sequestered, liable to sequestration M17-E19.
sequestree noun (rare) = SEQUESTRATOR E17-M19.