† sequestern.1
Obsolete.
In Civil Law, a person with whom the parties in a suit deposit the thing contested until the case has been decided. Also, in wider sense, a mediator.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun] > one who
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > sequestration of disputed or indebted estate > trustee of sequestered property
sequesterc1380
sequesterer14..
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sequestrator1646
c1380 Antecrist in J. H. Todd Three Treat. Wycklyffe (1851) 125 But take we heede to þe popes & cardinals boþe;..& dekenes & officials & sequestris.
a1400 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 363 And þat no man ne legge in lond ne in tenement by-fore y-seyd, þe whyle þe suquestre ys þare set.
1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 278v Kynge Iohn and pope Iulius dyed both in one day, wherby he [Basilius] lacked a conuenient sequester or solicitoure.
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §17 c This doth take the possession from the parties in controuersie, and giueth the same to the Sequester or indifferent man, to thend he may deliuer the same to him that recouereth it.
1633 D. Rogers Treat. Two Sacraments Gospell i. 65 The Minister then is..appointed as a Sequester betweene God and the Congregation.
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† sequestern.2
Obsolete.
1. Sequestration, seclusion, isolation.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun]
sequestration1565
soleness1587
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social isolation1833
asideness1880
purdah1912
lockdown1984
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iv. 40 This hand of yours requires A sequester from liberty. View more context for this quotation
2. The office or court to which goods seized by an act of sequestration are taken.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > sequestration of disputed or indebted estate > office to which goods are taken
sequester1568
1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 59v All the goodes and merchandise which he brought with him..were according to their common vsage seised and taken into the sequester.
3. Pathology. = sequestrum n. [So in French.] ? Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > portion of skin
sequester1831
sequestrum1831
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > detached piece of bone
sequester1831
sequestrum1831
1831 J. F. South tr. A. W. Otto Pathol. Anat. ii. 146 A jelly-like mass gradually hardens and becomes ossified, surrounds, like a sheath,..the necrotic bone, which is then called a sequester.
Draft additions December 2013
U.S. Politics. A cut on broad categories of government spending which is scheduled to take place automatically. Cf. sequestration n. Additions.
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1985 P. Gramm in Congress. Rec. 3 Oct. 25840/2 If the Congress acts on an alternative, sends it to the President, and the President signs it, that alternative savings plan is substituted for the automatic sequester.
1994 J. Miller Fix U.S. Budget iv. 31 Even in the original version of the bill, a sequester would have fallen inordinately hard on defense.
2004 D. L. Ostrander in R. Himelfarb & R. Perotti Princ. over Politics? 55 If the budget deal hadn't gone through, there would have been a sequester of at least $100 billion with cuts immediately.
2012 D. Limbaugh Great Destroyer vi. 177 Because of the sequester imposed by the Budget Control Act, our defense budget is in line to be cut by $55 billion in January 2013.
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sequesterv.
/sɪˈkwɛstə/ 1. transitive. To set aside, separate.† a. To separate and reject; to eliminate; chiefly in immaterial sense, to set aside, dismiss from consideration.† b. Ecclesiastical. To remove (a person) from the privileges of church-membership, to excommunicate.† c. With religious signification: To set apart, consecrate to a particular service, to ‘separate’. Obsolete.† d. To remove from membership of a body, or from a public office or station. Obsolete.reflexive.c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (1893) iii. xxxvi. 106 Fewe can fully sequestre & departe himself fro perisshing creatures.1557 M. Basset tr. T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1372/2 Sequestring themselfes from those wretched fetters that haue so long holden theim in sinne.1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Hii It shalbe lawful for a man to sequester him self from his owne wife.1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxxviii. 119 It is not enough, for a man to have sequestred himselfe from the concourse of people... A man must sequester and recover himselfe from himselfe.1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 36 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) He was resolved to sequester himself from the world.1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. liii. 337 But why, Ladies,..do you sequester yourselves from the company?1834 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 188/1 He sequestered himself from his subjects in the recesses of his palace.1847 T. De Quincey Joan of Arc in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 188/1 As surely as the wolf retires before cities, does the fairy sequester herself from the haunts of licensed victuallers.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration
forheedc1275
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to lay awaya1400
to put, set or lay byc1425
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to lay asidec1440
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to lay apart1526
to throw out1576
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to throw by1644
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to write off1861
to filter out1934
slam-dunk1975
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from main body
skillc1175
to tell outc1325
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portion1777
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to comb out1854
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hive off1931
section1960
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c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 437 Sequestre we al mannes lawe, supposynge Crists ordynaunce.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) iii. xviii. 90 b Poetes..should be quiet fro worldly mocion, And it sequester out of their remembraunce.
1537 Inst. Christen Man (new ed.) O iij b These be the wordes of Christe..that we shulde sequester this care from us and seke for the kyngdome of god.
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. i. 53 Thirdly, the great trouble..nature hath in the expelling and sequestring such humours.
1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist iv. 259 They presume, that they can sequester the sulphur even of Minerals and Metalls.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > excommunication > excommunicate [verb (transitive)]
waryc725
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amanseOE
accurselOE
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ban1303
sequester1395
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anathematize?1473
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malison1588
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inknot1611
shammatize1613
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to swear at ——1680
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1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 29 He shal be sequestrid, or departid fro the chirche, til he knouleche his gilt and amende him.
?a1500 in W. G. Henderson Manuale et Processionale Ecclesiæ Eboracensis (1875) p. xvi We curse and descry and fro the boundes of all holy kyrke sequestre and depart all thos that this illys hase done [etc.].
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 146 It is to be..prayed for, lest while any being sequestred, is separated from ye body of Christe, he remaine farre from health.
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 223 If their Bishop have sequestred them from the holy Communion, they must not be suffered to communicate elsewhere.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > perform consecration [verb (transitive)]
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1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. vi. f. xxi Hym hath god the father specyally sequestred and seuered and set asyde out of the nomber of all creatures.
1632 Consecr. Chapel Merstham Hatch in J. W. Legg 17th cent. Consecr. Churches (1911) 141 And after the ascention of our Saviour taught us by thy Apostles to distinguish [places] sequestred for religious exercises, from private houses.
a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 332 This Lord's Day is to be sequestred and set apart for Divine Worship.
1697 G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemblies 147 Let him..wholly sequester his soul to this work of religion.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)]
outOE
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to put out1344
to set downc1369
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to throw outa1382
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to set adowna1387
to put out of ——?a1400
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voidc1503
to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546
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displace1553
unauthorize1554
to wring out1560
seclude1572
eject1576
dispost1577
decass1579
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cast1587
sequester1587
to put to grass1589
cashier1592
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to take off1642
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resign1674
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Stellenbosch1900
defenestrate1917
axe1922
retire1961
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > exclude from society [verb (transitive)] > exclude from membership > remove from membership
seclude1572
sequester1587
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disfellowship1831
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 128/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Euerie person of the parlement ought to keepe secret..the secrets and things spoken and doone in the parlement house..vpon paine to be sequestred out of the house.
1629 J. Maxwell tr. Herodian Hist. 252 He tooke to wife..Augusta, yet soone after diuorced her, and..sequestred her to a priuate Life.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 3 Dec. (1974) VIII. 562 The Court of Aldermen have sequestered him from their Court till he doth bring in an account.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. liv. 164 Immediately after Strafford was sequestered from parliament.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 16 Many had already been sequestered from their livings.
e. To seclude (a person, thing, or place) from general access or intercourse; to keep apart from society. Now rare or Obsolete except in sequestered adj.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seclude [verb (transitive)]
reclusea1400
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seclude [verb (reflexive)]
sequesterc1430
seclude1749
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reclude1911
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate or isolate [verb (transitive)]
shedOE
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ghetto1936
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. xlvi. 93 For it is not in my powere to sequestre him longe from thee.
1497 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) B iij b Herts sequestred from all carnall desyres.
?1556 N. Smyth tr. Herodian Hist. vi. f. 73 Those which inhabite the Orient, are sequestred wyth great distaunce of lande, and Sea.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 75 Why are you sequestred from all your traine. View more context for this quotation
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. xxvii. 489 They laboured and tooke paines to sequester their children from delights and liberties..imploying them in honest and profitable exercises.
a1626 F. Bacon Considerations War with Spain (1629) 1 I had wholly sequestred my thoughts from ciuill affaires.
1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 179 A Christian, in all Acts of Duty, ought to sequester his Mind from all Respect to an ensuing Reward.
1766 Life of Quin ii. 18 Cato..being nine years sequestered in Mr. Addison's closet.
a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) ix. 320 Men, Whom in the City privilege of birth Sequester'd from the rest.
f. To segregate, separate in thought from the surroundings.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discern [verb (transitive)] > distinguish, separate
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to pick outa1555
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sequester1841
differentiate1857
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1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) xii. 292 The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety.
2. To confiscate, appropriate, to take forcible possession of.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] > by (public) authority
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encheata1464
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prizea1500
sequestera1513
confiscatea1533
distraina1616
expropriate1875
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > confiscate or sequestrate to state
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confiscatea1533
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inbring1752
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xli Than the Commons of ye Cytie..toke certayne of the Aldermen & caste theym in prysone, and Sequestryd theyr goodes & dispoyled moche therof.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. L.viijv The gouernours..commaunded all the saied shyppes to bee sequestred into theyr owne handes.
1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 21 His Majesty to be enfourmed that there is just grounde for his Majesty to sequestre the Seale, and then the L. Chancellor to come to the barre.
1640 in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1735) XX. 429 We..thereupon have been pleased to sequester the said Offices, into the Hands of Philip Burlamachy.
1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 32 He is in rebellion and his estate sequestered.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. ii. 34 The German prelates..were commanded..to sequester the goods of all who had presumed to assist in the incarceration of an Archbishop.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June 7/2 The banker to-day sequestered some State property, which was sold by auction.
3. Law.figurative and in extended use.1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery in Wks. (1875) IV. 251 But sequestring it [the Bible] only into such hands as were interested in the cheat, they had the opportunity to vitiate..those Records by which the poor people hold their salvation.1837 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. 417 The liberties of New York were thus sequestered by a monarch [= James II] who desired to imitate the despotism of France.† b. To remove (property in dispute) from the possession of contending parties in a suit, until reference has been had to a third party as arbitrator or umpire. Obsolete.† d. intransitive. (See quot.) Obsolete.
a. To remove (property, etc.) from the possession of the owner temporarily; to seize and hold the effects of a debtor until the claims of creditors be satisfied; Ecclesiastical to divert the income of a benefice to the payment of debts due from the incumbent, or for the purpose of making good dilapidations; to hold the income of a benefice during a vacancy for the benefit of the next incumbent.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > remove from owner temporarily
sequester1530
secrest1588
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > seize for debt > divert income of property
sequestrate1609
sequester1703
society > faith > worship > benefice > [verb (transitive)] > hold income of benefice during vacancy
sequester1732
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 709/1 I sequester, I put a thyng from the possessoure by the auctorite of a judge.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 85 He hath..the admynystratyon of intestate godys, by the reson wherof they be sequestryd from the profyt of al the frendys of hym wych so dyed intestate.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 286 Both his Livings..[were] sequester'd.
1732 J. Swift Advantages repealing Sacramental Test 14 Every Bishop, upon the Vacancy of a Church Living, can sequester the Profits for the Use of the next Incumbent.
1790 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 1 399 The profits of his property may be sequestered during war, but no forfeiture can take place.
1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 25 341 The Bishop..was commanded to sequester the fruits and profits of the rectory..until he should have levied the sum of £2285.13s. 4d.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > remove from owner temporarily > sequester disputed property
sequester1604
sequestrate1656
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Sequester, to put into an indifferent mans hands, to deuide, keepe or iudge of.
1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times To Rdr. sig. A7v For God and man beeing at ods, the difference was Sequestred or referred into Christs his hand to end and umpire it.
1656 in T. Blount Glossographia
c. To apply the process of sequestration to (a person); to sequestrate the estate or benefice of.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > remove from owner temporarily > sequester property of
sequestrate1546
sequester1681
1681 R. Baxter Apol. Nonconformists Ministry 80 The Vicar was sequestred by the Committee.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxv. 253 Thomas Morrison, Rector of Henly upon Thames..was sequestred.
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 328 Sandy..was informing a bunch of unshaven bodies that the Gourlays were ‘sequestered’.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > [verb (intransitive)] > renounce rights
renounce?1604
sequester1704
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Sequester, is a Term used in the Civil Law for renouncing, as when a Widow comes into Court, and disclaims to have any thing to do, or to intermeddle with her Husband's Estate, who is Deceased; she is said to Sequester.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seek seclusion [verb (intransitive)]
withdrawc1385
to renounce the worlda1425
retirea1538
sequester1627
secede1755
to do (also pull) a Garbo1932
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 286 Is it our pride..or what, that makes vs willingly sequester from such societie?
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 To sequester out of the world into Atlantick and Eutopian polities..will not mend our condition.
1838 New Monthly Mag. 53 541 Have you no hobby whereon you may whisk yourself away from this diurnal sphere, and so sequester from the real to the ideal?
5. Chemistry. To form a stable complex, esp. a chelate, with (an ion) so as effectively or actually to remove it from solution; to form a stable complex with (a biochemical molecule).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical admixture or isolation > form a stable complex [verb]
sequester1934
1934 R. E. Hall U.S. Patent 1,956,515 5/2 The water softening action of the sodium metaphosphate..is rather to sequester or lock up the calcium in a but extremely slightly [sic] ionizable condition in a soluble sodium-calcium-metaphosphate complex molecule.
1953 Sci. Amer. June 70/2 The iron..is tightly imprisoned and hidden away—‘sequestered’, in the poetic language of chelation technology—by EDTA's chelate rings.
1962 Which? Oct. 297/2 Instead of softening water by replacing the calcium and magnesium in hard water by sodium..you can ‘wrap up’ the calcium and magnesium—sequester them—and so isolate them from the soap during washing.
1973 Nature 13 July 103/2 Insect yolk proteins..are synthesized and secreted by the fat body, and are sequestered from the haemolymph by the developing oocytes.
1977 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 92/1 When the cations are sequestered in an organic cage molecule, the resulting complex is so stable that the ‘backsliding’ reaction is prevented.
Derivatives
seˈquestering n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > excommunication > [noun]
mansingOE
amansingOE
cursing?c1120
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excommunion1641
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excommunicating1648
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consecration1700
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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > [adjective] > seizing by (public) authority
sequestering1620
confiscating1796
confiscatorya1797
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective]
reclusedc1443
quiet1507
withdrawing1576
secluse1597
reclusive1600
secluded1604
recluse1608
withdrawn?1615
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solitousa1656
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hermitish1812
anchoritish1823
umbratic1839
Garboesque1928
Garboic1937
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. xv. 91 And it might so be, that in this time of sequestring, he might forget all his vanities.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis ii. 54 The sequestring variance of virile nature.
1684 R. Baxter Acct. Twelve Arguments 27 in Catholick Communion Defended They ordered the Sequestring of all Ministers that would not Fast and Pray.
1949 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) IX. 512/2 The term ‘sequestering’ introduced by Hall Laboratories to designate the virtually complete elimination of Ca++ ions whilst retaining the calcium in solution in the form of a soluble complex.
1962 Which? Oct. 297/2 The best known sequestering agents for softening water in this way are the sodium metaphosphates.
1973 P. A. Allum Politics & Society Post-War Naples ix. 316 Antonio Gava's manoeuvres to try to become Campanian Regional Chairman..included the sequestering of a DC regional councillor in a trunk.
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