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Etymology [ edit ]
From Middle English sequestren ( verb ) and sequestre ( noun ) , from Old French sequestrer [1] , from Late Latin sequestrō ( “ separate, give up for safekeeping ” ) , from Latin sequester ( “ mediator, depositary ” ) , probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- ( “ follow ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
sequester (third-person singular simple present sequesters , present participle sequestering , simple past and past participle sequestered )
To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
To separate in order to store .
The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
To set apart ; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:set apart
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, →OCLC :I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.
( chemistry ) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
( law ) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
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.
( transitive , US , politics , law ) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
( international law ) To seize and hold enemy property .
( intransitive ) To withdraw ; to retire .
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband .
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Translations [ edit ]
to separate from all external influence
to separate in order to store
chemistry: to prevent an ion from behaving normally
law: to temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims
US, politics, law: to remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget
sequester (plural sequesters )
sequestration ; separation
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, →OCLC , [Act III, scene iv]:A sequester from liberty , fasting , and prayer
( 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 [2]
( medicine ) A sequestrum .
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Translations [ edit ]
sequestration, separation
a person with whom two or more parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary , which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for sequester in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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Etymology [ edit ]
From secus ( “ otherwise, beside ” ) , following the model of equester and others.
Pronunciation [ edit ]
sequester m (genitive sequestris ); third declension or sequester m (genitive sequestrī ); second declension
depositary , trustee (someone to take care of property while in dispute)
agent of bribery , go-between
mediator
Declension [ edit ]
Usually: Third-declension noun.
Sometimes: Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er ).
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References [ edit ]
“sequester ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sequester ”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers
sequester in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette