SEQUESTER
\siːkwˈɛstə], \siːkwˈɛstə], \s_iː_k_w_ˈɛ_s_t_ə]\
Definitions of SEQUESTER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
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undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"
By Princeton University
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set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
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Chemistry: undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
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To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
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To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
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To withdraw; to retire.
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To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
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Sequestration; separation.
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To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; - often used reflexively.
By Oddity Software
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To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
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To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
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To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
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To withdraw; to retire.
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To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
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Sequestration; separation.
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To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; - often used reflexively.
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Same as Sequestrum.
By Noah Webster.
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To separate from the owner for a time; take possession of (the property of another) until some claim is paid; cause to withdraw or retire; seclude. Also, sequestrate.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To separate: to withdraw from society: to set apart: (law) to place anything contested into the hands of a third person till the dispute is settled: to hold the property of another till the profits pay the demands: to take possession of the estate of a bankrupt in order to distribute it among the creditors.
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(law) To renounce any interest in the estate of a husband.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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