sequestrate
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But if he escape conviction, you must sequestrate the living because of the debts.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony
Suppose, my dear Sir, they should proceed to arrest you, or to sequestrate the revenue of your vicarage.
From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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 Hendrick, Burton J.
Our subject is not entirely to sequestrate the prisoner nor to confine him to absolute solitude.
From Elizabeth Fry by Pitman, Mrs. E. R.
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 Robins, Elizabeth
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 very day you must go to madame and tell her that Prince Theobald's fortune is sequestrated and that she can no longer occupy his hotel.
From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór
The old emperor affected to believe the accusation, sequestrated the general's property, and kept him under surveillance for eight months.
From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick
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 Brehm, Worth
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 Stevenson, Sara Yorke
These later years seem to have been the hey-day of the Loyalists in most of the Colonies, although the Patriots passed severe laws against them, sequestrating their property and even banishing them.
From George Washington by Thayer, William Roscoe
Immediately, on reoccupying the city of Mexico, the Constitutionalists proceeded to execute with severity the decree issued at Vera Cruz nationalizing or sequestrating the property of the church.
From The United States and Latin America by Latane, John Holladay
