Definition of "sequester"

sequester

/sɪˈkwɛs.tə/

verb
third-person singular simple present sequesters, present participle sequestering, simple past and past participle sequestered
1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
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  when men most sequester themselves from action
  1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, (please specify the page)
2. To separate in order to store.
3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
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  I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.
  a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629
4. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
5. (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
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  It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
  c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV
7. (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
8. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
9. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
  Quotations
  to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
  1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.]
10. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
noun
plural sequesters
1. sequestration; separation
  Quotations
  A sequester from liberty , fasting , and prayer
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv]
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 referee
3. (medicine) A sequestrum.

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