Sequester
(Se*ques"ter), v. i.
1. To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics.
Milton. 2. (Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Sequester
(Se*ques"ter), n.
1. Sequestration; separation. [R.]
2. (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.
3. (Med.) Same as Sequestrum.
Sequestered
(Se*ques"tered) a. Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper.
Along the cool, sequestered vale of life.
Gray. Sequestrable
(Se*ques"tra*ble) a. Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.
Sequestral
(Se*ques"tral) a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to a sequestrum. Quian.
Sequestrate
(Se*ques"trate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Sequestrating.] To
sequester.
Sequestration
(Seq`ues*tra"tion) n. [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) (Internat. 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.
Sequestrator
(Seq"ues*tra`tor) n. [L., one that hinders or impedes.] (Law) (a) One who sequesters
property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits. (b) One
to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
Sequestrum
(||Se*ques"trum) n.; pl. Sequestra [NL. See Sequester.] (Med.) A portion of dead bone
which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
Sequin
(Se"quin) n. [F. sequin, It. zecchino, from zecca the mint, fr. Ar. sekkah, sikkah, a die, a
stamp. Cf. Zechin.] An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end
of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into
