sequestrate
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They have, besides, possessions in Belgium, Piedmont, and Italy, which I intend to sequestrate.
From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot
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
“My father is my father; but Joseph is just as much my uncle as he’s yours; and you have no right to sequestrate his person.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
If any cow in the herd shows the indurated end of the teat or the inflammation and nodular tender character of the gland, sequestrate her at once and give her a separate milker.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
But the really fatal effect of such a defeat would have been that it would no longer have been necessary for the British to sequestrate a hundred or more destroyers at Scapa Flow.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
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
If not, at the expiration of that term, the sequestrated portion would be released.
From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Catherine Crowe
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
There is ground for seizure, the Article adds, and for sequestrating a work, if the printer does not produce the receipts of the deposit ordered by the preceding Article.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole
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
Cromwell’s visitors were out over England examining into the condition of the religious houses, exposing their abuses and sequestrating their estates.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude
