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Sequester   Listen
verb
Sequester  v. i.  
1.
To withdraw; to retire. (Obs.) "To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics."
2.
(Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.





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"Sequester" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sequester all the chief's property. If he won't give it up let the askaris deal with him. If that doesn't work, ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... calm, a holy feeling, Vulgar minds, can never know, O'er the bosom softly stealing,— Chasten'd grief, delicious woe! Oh! how sweet at eve regaining Yon lone tower's sequester'd shade— ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough
... Life to pay for that which he does not need, by increase of social fiction, and by obstruction of social flow with the fructifications which this brings, not to be spared by any mortal. Nay, by extreme excess, it may so cut off and sequester a man, that no word or aspect of another soul can reach him; he shall see in mankind only himself, he shall hear in the voices of others only his own echoes. Many and many a man is there, so housed ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various
... oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood: To the which place our poor sequester'd stag Did come to languish; and indeed, my lord, The wretched animal heaved forth such groans That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting, and the big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent ...
— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs


Words linked to "Sequester" :   keep apart, chemistry, retire, sequestration, condemn, sequestrate, part, separate, insulate, divide, adjourn, chemical science, change, seize, garnishee, set apart, attach, impound, confiscate, disunite, withdraw, isolate, distrain, take, garnish


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