sequestrate
Example Sentences
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They told her that Lord Carse found himself compelled, for family reasons, to sequestrate her.
From The Billow and the Rock by Wheeler, E.J.
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 Hertzka, Theodor
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 Seeley, Levi
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
So that her children should not be deprived of their father's fortune, which the nation could sequestrate as the property of an émigré, Mme. de Vaubadon, like many other royalists, had sued for a divorce.
From The House of the Combrays by Le Notre, G., [pseud.]