sequestrate
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Under these circumstances, Mr. Carter was able to enter into Clement's views, and sequestrate himself for a short period for the more deliberate investigation of the Winchester business.
From Henry Dunbar A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
As it stood on paper, simply to take possession of the ports of Mexico, and sequestrate their customs to pay the interest on foreign debts.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various
The commissary is warned not to sequestrate the property of the accused, but to see that it be administered by some capable person.
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
Desire had laughed and promised to sequestrate Yorick for the afternoon.
From The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
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
Meanwhile a Prussian envoy had again been appointed at the Vatican; all but three of the vacant bishoprics were filled by agreement between the pope and the king, and the sequestrated revenues were restored.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
He kept his head on his shoulders, but Berry Pomeroy became sequestrated to the Crown.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Eden Phillpots
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
Besides, everything regarding the certificate and sequestrating of Clear had been quite legal.
From The Silent House by Fergus Hume
For two years Ingle ruled and plundered, sequestrating goods of the Proprietary's adherents, and deporting in irons Jesuit priests.
From Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings by Mary Johnston
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
