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
Example Sentences
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Our subject is not entirely to sequestrate the prisoner nor to confine him to absolute solitude.
From Elizabeth Fry by Pitman, Mrs. E. R.
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)
He accordingly issued a peremptory order to sequestrate every copy in Italy.
From Great Astronomers by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
"But, my dear, I cannot sequestrate the man's income."
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony
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
Her father was a Pole, one of those ill-fated noblemen who died for their country, whose estates were sequestrated, and whose fortune went to swell the coffers of the Russian Treasury.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
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 Hoover, Thomas
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
King John kept monasteries without any abbot for years, sequestrating the estates in the meantime, and leaving the monks to make the best of it.
From The Coming of the Friars by Jessopp, Augustus
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 Masson, David
Besides, everything regarding the certificate and sequestrating of Clear had been quite legal.
From The Silent House by Hume, Fergus
There is ground for seizure, the Article adds, and for sequestrating a work, if the printer does not produce the receipts of the deposit ordered by the preceding Article.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by Cole, John William
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