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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



... 1766 and 1788, the only transaction on which Mr. Fish can found any claim to the parsonage look place. There was then either no law existing, which could empower any person to sequester and set apart the lands of the Indians, or the law of 1693, (if that of 1763 had expired,) was revived, by which the guardianship again attached to the Indians. The Indians, it is believed, continued to choose their own Overseers, under the charter of 1763, after it had expired, and without ...
— Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts - Relative to the Marshpee Tribe: or, The Pretended Riot Explained • William Apes
... suggest; with no public direction in what course to pursue his enquiries; no private assistance to remove the distresses and difficulties, which will always embarass a beginner. In this situation he is expected to sequester himself from the world, and by a tedious lonely process to extract the theory of law from a mass of undigested learning; or else by an assiduous attendance on the courts to pick up theory and practice together, sufficient to qualify him ...
— Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone
... true humanitie, flye the societie of men, and hide vs in forrestes among wilde beastes? to auoyde these vnrulie passions, eschue the assemblye of creatures supposed reasonable? to plucke vs out of the euills of the world, sequester our selues from the world? Coulde wee in so dooing liue at rest, ...
— A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier • Philippe de Mornay


Words linked to "Sequester" :   insulate, garnish, condemn, impound, take, distrain, seclude, set apart, attach, part, retire, adjourn, chemical science, chemistry, sequestration, isolate, keep apart, change


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