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Sequestrate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SEQUES'TRATE, v. t. To seqester. [It is less used than seqester, but exactly synonymous.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: seclude, sequester, sequestrate, withdraw]
2: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" [syn: sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-trated; -trating) Etymology: Latin sequestratus, past participle of sequestrare Date: 15th century sequester; especially sequester 2 • sequestrator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 confiscate, appropriate. 2 Law take temporary possession of (a debtor's estate etc.). 3 Eccl. apply (the income of a benefice) to clearing the incumbent's debts or accumulating a fund for the next incumbent. Derivatives: sequestrable adj. sequestration n. sequestrator n. Etymology: LL sequestrare (as SEQUESTER)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sequestrate Se*ques"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Sequestrating.] To sequester.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sequestrates, sequestrating, sequestrated) When property is sequestrated, it is taken officially from someone who has debts, usually after a decision in a court of law. If the debts are paid off, the property is returned to its owner. (LEGAL) He tried to prevent union money from being sequestrated by the courts. = sequester VERB: usu passive, be V-ed • sequestration ...the sequestration of large areas of land.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Sequester, set aside. 2. (International Law.) Confiscate.