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Sequester :: Sequester (v. i.) To withdraw; to retire.

Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) 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..

Sequester :: Sequester (n.) Sequestration; separation.

Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.

Sequestered :: Sequestered (a.) Retired; secluded.

Appropriable :: Appropriable (a.) Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use..

Appropriation :: Appropriation (n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

Sequestrate :: Sequestrate (v. t.) To sequester.

Sequester :: Sequester (n.) Same as Sequestrum.

Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc..

Sequestrator :: Sequestrator (n.) One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits..

Private :: Private (a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer..

Sequester :: Sequester (n.) 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.

Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.

Religious :: Religious (n.) A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun..

Recluse :: Recluse (a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life..

Sequester :: Sequester (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Lonely :: Lonely (superl.) Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell..

Sequestrator :: Sequestrator (n.) One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.

Seclusive :: Seclusive (a.) Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.

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