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.
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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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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 Irving, Washington
The independent Municipal Self-Governments have the right to sequestrate all unoccupied or uninhabited dwelling-places.
From Ten Days That Shook the World by Reed, John
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 Hertzka, Theodor
Our subject is not entirely to sequestrate the prisoner nor to confine him to absolute solitude.
From Elizabeth Fry by Pitman, Mrs. E. R.
He accordingly issued a peremptory order to sequestrate every copy in Italy.
From Great Astronomers by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
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
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
Visits of messengers were frequent, almost daily; and his whole stock and crop were sequestrated by the landlord, and a day for the sale fixed.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
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
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
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 Villani, Giovanni
He did not distinguish himself, one of his earliest acts being to urge the promulgation of the above-mentioned decree sequestrating the property of all who were then opposed to the new order of things.
From Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Stevenson, Sara Yorke
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