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Sequestered   /sɪkwˈɛstərd/   Listen
Sequestered

adjective
1.
Providing privacy or seclusion.  Synonyms: cloistered, reclusive, secluded.  "Sat close together in the sequestered pergola" , "Sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree" , "A secluded romantic spot"
2.
Kept separate and secluded.



Sequester

verb
(past & past part. sequestered; pres. part. sequestering)
1.
Requisition forcibly, as of enemy property.
2.
Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority.  Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize.  "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment" , "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
3.
Undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion.
4.
Keep away from others.  Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw.
5.
Set apart from others.  Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart.






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"Sequestered" Quotes from Famous Books



... the nature of their occupation, the miners were greatly exposed. Having been sent, one day, in charge of an older workman, to the Salts Room to dig a few sacks of the salt, and finding that the path to this sequestered nook was perfectly plain; and that, from the Haunted Chambers being a single, continuous passage without branches, it was impossible to wander from it, our hero disdained on his second visit, to seek or accept assistance, and trudged off to his work alone. The circumstance ...
— Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 - By a Visiter • Alexander Clark Bullitt

... and almswomen runs a tiny cloister with oak pillars, so that the inmates may visit one another dryshod in any weather. Each door, too, bears a text from the Old or New Testament. A more typical relic of the old world, a more sequestered haven of rest, than this row of lowly buildings, looking up to the great church in front, and with its windows opening on to green turf bordered with flowers in the rear, it could not enter into the heart of man ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield

... impossible to visit this sequestered spot without being struck with the recollection of the Fount of Arethusa and the rock Korax, which the poet mentions in the same line, adding, that there the swine ate the sweet [4] acorns, and drank ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1 • Lord Byron, Edited by Rowland E. Prothero

... sequestered part of it in which most of my time was passed—is a good country for a traveller minded as I was. The scenery is not grand. It does not exact the highest admiration; but it is, perhaps, not on that account the less suitable for the purpose of those who seek repose. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various

... sultry noontide of July Now bids us seek the forest's shade; Or for the crystal streamlet sigh. That flows in some sequestered glade. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 262, July 7, 1827 • Various


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