Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were,
in the last resort, sequestered and detained to
enforce the decrees of the court. And now the
profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the
debts of ecclesiastics. --Blackstone.
2. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration;
to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions
and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
--South.
3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from
other things.
I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss. --Bacon.
4. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude;
to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
When men most sequester themselves from action.
--Hooker.
A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a
higher conversation. --Bacon.
To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and
Utopian politics. --Milton.
2. (Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the
estate of her husband.
2. (Law) 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. --Bouvier.
3. (Med.) Same as {Sequestrum}.