sequestrate

American  

[si-kwes-trayt] / sɪˈkwɛs treɪt /

verb (used with object)

sequestrated, sequestrating

1. Law.

   1. to sequester (property).

   2. to confiscate.

2. to separate; seclude.

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sequestrate British  

/ sɪˈkwɛstreɪt /

verb

1. law a variant of sequester

2. Scots law

   1. to place (the property of a bankrupt) in the hands of a trustee for the benefit of his creditors

   2. to render (a person) bankrupt

3. archaic to seclude or separate

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Other Word Forms

• sequestrator
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of sequestrate

1505–15; < Latin sequestrātus (past participle of sequestrāre ), equivalent to sequestr- ( see sequester) + -ātus -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sequestrate sequestrated sequestrating

He accordingly issued a peremptory order to sequestrate every copy in Italy.

From Great Astronomers by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

"But, my dear, I cannot sequestrate the man's income."

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit†. disapprove &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

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

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

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

When they found their expectations frustrated, the wasp's nest swarmed out against us three brothers, and sequestrated our house-property for payment of their alleged debts.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

After he had invested and lost a small fortune in support of the king's failed cause, he had been exiled to Barbados, his ancestral estate sequestrated by Parliament.

From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

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

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

He had actually served as one of the King's Commissioners for sequestrating the estates of Parliamentarians in three English counties.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson

And the other was his greed in taking and sequestrating the revenues of Holy Church, to squander them evilly.

From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani

Can the sequestrators possibly have inventoried and sold the goods, as they themselves declared, on the 16th, though the sequestrating Order was not formally issued till the 17th?

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson

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