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Sequester

//sɪˈkwɛs.tə// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
sequestration; separation
"A sequester from liberty , fasting , and prayer"
2
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
A sequestrum.

Verb

1
To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
"The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order."
2
set apart from others wordnet
3
To separate in order to store.
"The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions."
4
keep away from others wordnet
5
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
"I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs."

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6
undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion wordnet
7
To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
8
take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority wordnet
9
To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
10
requisition forcibly, as of enemy property wordnet
11
To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
"c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him."
12
To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget. US, transitive
"The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013."
13
To seize and hold enemy property.
14
To withdraw; to retire. intransitive
"to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics"
15
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English sequestren (verb) and sequestre (noun), from Old French sequestrer, from Late Latin sequestrō (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”).

Etymology 2

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