sequestrate
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As Thomas Roch gave only too visible proofs of mental alienation, the Administration, in the very interest of his invention, judged it prudent to sequestrate him.
From Facing the Flag by Jules Verne
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
He was to inquire into the conduct of Cortez, and in case he thought fit, to seize him, sequestrate his property, and supersede him in command.
From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Washington Irving
The independent Municipal Self-Governments have the right to sequestrate all unoccupied or uninhabited dwelling-places.
From Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
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
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
Some inventories have been preserved of the goods and chattels sequestrated when the arrests were made at Albi in 1299 and 1300, which show how thoroughly everything was swept into the maelstrom.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
All the glories of the past, long sequestrated in the chapel, must figure in the procession.
From The Last Lion and Other Tales by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
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
He did not distinguish himself, one of his earliest acts being to urge the promulgation of the above-mentioned decree sequestrating the property of all who were then opposed to the new order of things.
From Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Sara Yorke Stevenson
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
In the meanwhile, the Supreme Civil Court issued a warrant, sequestrating the property of Jean Key, or Wright, which removed out of the reach of the actors in the violence the prize which they expected.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
In her distress lest Jim should take too much, the claimant of his name and protection had evidently been sequestrating a large share for herself.
From Waring's Peril by Charles King
