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

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 Levi Seeley

“My father is my father; but Joseph is just as much my uncle as he’s yours; and you have no right to sequestrate his person.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Our subject is not entirely to sequestrate the prisoner nor to confine him to absolute solitude.

From Elizabeth Fry by Mrs. E. R. Pitman

After the close of the American war, I had, for various reasons of a private nature, a wish to sequestrate myself for a time, from any very ostensible part in public affairs. 

From The Provost by John Galt

He was to inquire into the conduct of Cortez, and in case he thought fit, to seize him, sequestrate his property, and supersede him in command.

From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Washington Irving

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

It will give a better idea of the uncertain condition of those two, sequestrated underground, than any mere description.

From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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 Felix Moscheles

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

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 John William Cole

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

In the meanwhile, the Supreme Civil Court issued a warrant, sequestrating the property of Jean Key, or Wright, which removed out of the reach of the actors in the violence the prize which they expected.

From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott

Immediately, on reoccupying the city of Mexico, the Constitutionalists proceeded to execute with severity the decree issued at Vera Cruz nationalizing or sequestrating the property of the church.

From The United States and Latin America by John Holladay Latane

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