sequester

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by NadandoBot (talk | contribs) as of 05:13, 24 October 2019.
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

WOTD – 9 October 2008

Etymology

Lua error: The template Template:PIE root does not use the parameter(s): 
2=sekʷ
id=follow
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.

(deprecated template usage)

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

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /sɪˈkwɛs.tə/, /səˈkwɛs.tə/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /sɪˈkwɛs.tɚ/, /səˈkwɛs.tɚ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

Verb

sequester (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.
    The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
    • Hooker
      when men most sequester themselves from action
  2. To separate in order to store.
    The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
  3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
    • Francis Bacon
      I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.
  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.
    • South
      It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
  7. (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.
  8. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
  9. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
    • Milton
      to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
  10. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

sequester (plural sequesters)

  1. sequestration; separation
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
  3. (medicine) A sequestrum.

Lua error in Module:languages/errorGetBy at line 16: Please specify a language or family code in the second parameter; the value "sekʷ" is not valid (see Wiktionary:List of languages).

Translations

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “sequester”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=sequester&oldid=57830117"