sequestrate
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The commissary is warned not to sequestrate the property of the accused, but to see that it be administered by some capable person.
So it fell out that the von Schwarzenberg's schemes, first to banish and later to sequestrate the American, were set at naught through the agency of Mr. Julian Grant.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
It is now proposed not only to forbid all teaching by these orders, but also to sequestrate the property of such congregations as exist solely for teaching purposes.
From History of Education by Levi Seeley
Desire had laughed and promised to sequestrate Yorick for the afternoon.
From The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
His creditors were willing enough to wait, but one rascal refused to do so, and swore he would sequestrate him.
From The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Looking back, Khodorkovsky thinks his mistake was to acknowledge that Yukos could be sequestrated from him, but he did not anticipate its destruction.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025
The bill and the subsequent legal costs saw the debt soar to a reported £30,000 and in 2000 Mrs Van Overwaele was sequestrated - the Scottish legal term for being made legally bankrupt.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2022
The proposed jurors were interviewed anonymously, and those selected will remain so – and sequestrated for the duration of the trial, expected to last several months.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2018
When they found their expectations frustrated, the wasp's nest swarmed out against us three brothers, and sequestrated our house-property for payment of their alleged debts.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
He gave a thought even to young Patten, who had forfeited the last chance of saving his sequestrated estate by breaking his parole, and again appearing in arms against the Parliament.
From A Little Wizard by Stanley J. Weyman
The grant will help fund the conservation and breeding of tropical forage grasses with deep roots for sequestrating carbon in soil.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2022
Cardinal Frederick alone enjoined his curates to impress upon the people the importance of declaring every case, and of sequestrating all infected or suspected goods.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
He had actually served as one of the King's Commissioners for sequestrating the estates of Parliamentarians in three English counties.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
Besides, everything regarding the certificate and sequestrating of Clear had been quite legal.
From The Silent House by Fergus Hume
It gratifies our loyalty—our loyalty, madam, is a sentiment which exalts and endears the meanest services, even that of sequestrating a spy, an informer.”
From The Billow and the Rock by E.J. Wheeler
