sequestrate
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"But, my dear, I cannot sequestrate the man's income."
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
But if he escape conviction, you must sequestrate the living because of the debts.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
He accordingly issued a peremptory order to sequestrate every copy in Italy.
From Great Astronomers by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
Her Majesty the Queen of Holland has given orders to her warships temporarily to sequestrate and place an embargo upon all vessels of the Venezuelan Government.
From International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim
In Freeland no one possesses this power because here no one need sequestrate the land in order that it may be tilled.
From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Theodor Hertzka
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
This my father detected at once, and sequestrated you to his own use accordingly.
From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
As soon as a suspected heretic was cited or arrested the secular officials sequestrated his property and notified his debtors by proclamation.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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
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
In September Napoleon demanded Stein's dismissal, and enforced the demand by sequestrating Frederick William's Westphalian estates, threatening at the same time to continue the French occupation of Prussia indefinitely.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
A law was enacted sequestrating "the estates, property, and effects of alien enemies."
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
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
