sequestrate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Law.
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to sequester (property).
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to confiscate.
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to separate; seclude.
verb
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law a variant of sequester
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Scots law
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to place (the property of a bankrupt) in the hands of a trustee for the benefit of his creditors
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to render (a person) bankrupt
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archaic to seclude or separate
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of sequestrate
1505–15; < Latin sequestrātus (past participle of sequestrāre ), equivalent to sequestr- ( see sequester) + -ātus -ate 1
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The independent Municipal Self-Governments have the right to sequestrate all unoccupied or uninhabited dwelling-places.
From Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
"But, my dear, I cannot sequestrate the man's income."
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
They told her that Lord Carse found himself compelled, for family reasons, to sequestrate her.
From The Billow and the Rock by E.J. Wheeler
Not sequestrate the income of a man who has been proved to be a thief!
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
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
The villa and all its splendid contents were sequestrated, and an action for divorce, with ten thousand pounds laid as damages, already commenced.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
It is well that where they are first sequestrated there they should be permanently kept.
From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles B. Towns
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
Cardinal Frederick alone enjoined his curates to impress upon the people the importance of declaring every case, and of sequestrating all infected or suspected goods.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
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 William Roscoe Thayer
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
Besides, everything regarding the certificate and sequestrating of Clear had been quite legal.
From The Silent House by Fergus Hume
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