sequestrate
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So that her children should not be deprived of their father's fortune, which the nation could sequestrate as the property of an émigré, Mme. de Vaubadon, like many other royalists, had sued for a divorce.
From The House of the Combrays by G. Le Notre
They told her that Lord Carse found himself compelled, for family reasons, to sequestrate her.
From The Billow and the Rock by E.J. Wheeler
After the close of the American war, I had, for various reasons of a private nature, a wish to sequestrate myself for a time, from any very ostensible part in public affairs.
From The Provost by John Galt
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
They sequestrate our manifestos, they forbid meetings and conferences, they pry into our postal correspondence.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
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
Whereupon, by the Earl of Manchester's warrant, he was promptly ejected and sequestrated.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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
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
King John kept monasteries without any abbot for years, sequestrating the estates in the meantime, and leaving the monks to make the best of it.
From The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp
Besides, everything regarding the certificate and sequestrating of Clear had been quite legal.
From The Silent House by Fergus Hume
The next morning, however, even after he had succeeded in sequestrating Celia from her companions, he found it impossible to approach the subject.
From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Worth Brehm
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
