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sequestered, ppl. a.|sɪˈkwɛstəd|
Also 7 sequestred.
[f. sequester v. + -ed1.]
†1. Separated; cut off from congenial surroundings. Obs.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. i. 33 To the which place a poore sequestred Stag That from the Hunters, aime had tane a hurt, Did come to languish. 1766[Anstey] Bath Guide ix. 2 To humbler Strains, ye Nine, descend And greet my poor sequester'd Friend. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. I. v. 413 [They] suffer some grief in their sequestered state.
b. Under sentence of sequestration; esp. Eccl. Hist. Of the dispossessed clergy under the Commonwealth: Deprived of a benefice.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Gen. xi. (1662) i. 37 Next I desire them to reflect upon aged sequestred Ministers; whom, with their charge, the (generally ill paid) fifth part will not maintain. 1663Cowley Cutter Colman St. v. xiii, Fifteen hundred pounds a year is no ill match for the daughter of a Sequestred Cavalier. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 79 He is a poor sequestred Parson. 1808W. Wilson Dissent. Churches I. 366 At Cliff..he succeeded Dr. Griffith Higges, the sequestered minister.
†c. Of estates, benefices, etc.: In sequestration.
1649(title) Two Resolutions of Parliament respecting Tenants of Sequestred Estates. 1765–8Erskine Inst. Law Scot. ii. xii. §58 The rules by which a judicial factor on a sequestered estate ought to conduct himself.
†d. Chem. Separated, eliminated. Obs.
1661Boyle Scept. Chem. iv. 260 These sequestered substances.
2. Sheltered, retired, secluded.
1658J. Robinson Endoxa Pref. 2 Neither my Genius, nor calling, will allow me a sequestred time, to dwell long upon any subject. 1750Gray Elegy 75 Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 1773Cowper Ode to Peace 17 And wilt thou quit the stream..The grove and the sequester'd shed, To be a guest with them? 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxxv, To this sequestered spot Colonel Ashton had guided the stranger. 1878H. S. Leigh Town Garland 204 In a part of a suburb sequestered and gloomy I took up my quarters a twelvemonth ago.
b. Of persons: Retired, living a secluded life or in a quiet, unfrequented place.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. i. §25 These Bonehomes,..(the poorest of Orders) and Eremites, (the most sequestred of begging Fryers) had two..Convents in England. 1783Watson Philip III, iv. (1793) I. 433 This imputation had often been cast upon the Morescoes, by speculative and sequestered men, who had no access to know the truth of their assertion. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. v. 718 In powers of mind, In scale of culture, few among my flock Hold lower rank than this sequestered pair. 1834De Quincey Cæsars iv. Wks. 1890 VI. 323 The Emperor, himself a sacred and sequestered creature, might be supposed to enjoy the secret tutelage of the Supreme Deity.
transf.1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §10 Those disordered motions, which accompany our sequestred imaginations. 1825Scott Betrothed xxii, The household of the Lady Eveline..was of a solemn and sequestered character, corresponding to her place of residence. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ii. 989 Confess..That, O Pompilia, thy sequestered eyes Had noticed..More of the Canon, than that [etc.]. |