sequester, sequestre

t. & i. [French séquestrer, from Latin sequestro to, surrender, to remove, to lay aside; Sp. & Port. sequestrar; Ital. sequestrare. ] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: *1. To put aside, to remove; to separate from other things. "Him hath God the father specially sequestered and seuered and set aside out of the number of al creatures." -More: Works , p. 1,046. 2. To cause to retire or withdraw from society or into obscurity; to withdraw, to seclude. (In this sense frequently used reflexively.) "Why are you sequestered from all your train?"Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus , ii. 3. 3. In the same sense as II. *4. To deprive of property, goods, or po e ions. "It was his taylor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him; and, in a word, he came by his poverty as sinfully as some usually do by their riches." -South. (Todd.) II. Law : 1. To separate or withdraw from the owner for a time; to seize or take po e ion of, as the property or income of a debtor, until the claims of his creditors are satisfied; to sequestrate. 2. To set aside from the power of either party, as a matter at i ue, by order of a court of law. B. Intransitive : *1. Ord. Lang.: To withdraw. "To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics."- Milton . cond concern with the estate of her husband. 2. Law : To renounce or decline, as a widow, any