Definition of sequester
- v. t. - To separate from the owner for a time; to take from
parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent
person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to
another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it
is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or
clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
- v. t. - To cause (one) to submit to the process of
sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- v. t. - To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate
from other things.
- v. t. - To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to
seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
- v. i. - To withdraw; to retire.
- v. i. - To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the
estate of her husband.
- n. - Sequestration; separation.
- n. - A person with whom two or more contending parties
deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between
two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
- n. - Same as Sequestrum.