sequestrate

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Any scheme to sequestrate, to hide it under a bushel, or to put it under lock and key, is a shallow device.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)

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

His creditors were willing enough to wait, but one rascal refused to do so, and swore he would sequestrate him.

From The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

They sequestrate our manifestos, they forbid meetings and conferences, they pry into our postal correspondence.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

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 Verne, Jules