sequestrationn.

/siːkwɛˈstreɪʃən/

Forms: Middle English sequestracoun, Middle English sequestracyo(u)n, Middle English–1500s sequestracion, 1500s sequestratioun, 1500s– sequestration.

Etymology: < late Latin sequestrātiōn-em, < Latin sequestrāre : see sequester v. Compare Old French sequestration, Spanish secuestracion, Portuguese sequestração, Italian sequestrazione.

a. An act or the action of sequestering, banishment, exile; esp. Ecclesiastical, a cutting off from the privileges of Church-membership, excommunication.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > [noun]

flemeOE

exilec1330

flemingc1374

relegationc1425

sequestrationa1450

exulation1535

extermination1586

deportation1595

exportationa1610

displantation1614

elimination1623

discommonwealthing1647

ejection1655

self-exile1712

uprooting1775

expatriation1816

dissettlement1880

uprootedness1927

society > faith > worship > excommunication > [noun]

mansingOE

amansingOE

cursing?c1120

malloka1400

malediction1447

sequestrationa1450

comminationa1464

excommengement1495

excommuny1502

fulmination1502

excommunicationa1513

aggravation1531

anathematization1547

anathemization1549

anathema1565

anathemea1575

anathematical1583

anathematizing1593

sequestering1620

excommunion1641

dischurching1644

excision1647

excommunicating1648

unchurching1655

consecration1700

innodation1731

a1450 in J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests (1902) 63 Alle þat brekuth or lettuth sequestracion of any prelatys, wit-oute here leue.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 20 How þat we spek of curse oiþer it þat is dedly,..or it þat is sequestracoun of þe iust man fro comyn.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 357 Αϕορισμὸς. Sequestration. Whereby all offendours whatsoever, were excluded from the Sacraments.

1663 L. Womock Aron-bimnucha or Antidote to cure Calamites 2 The gall and worm~wood of his exile, was, his sequestration from the Ark, the holy Ordinances and worship of his God.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vi. 421 The punishment of delinquents was sequestration from the oratory, the table, and the common meetings.

1898 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Sequestration,..seclusion of infected persons or of lunatics.

b. transferred. Separation, disjunction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun]

asunderingeOE

sheddingc1175

twinning?c1225

departingc1300

sunderinga1325

to-dighting1340

partingc1350

disseverancec1374

divisionc1374

severinga1382

departitionc1400

separation1413

sunderance1435

departisonc1440

deceperationa1450

severance1467

dissevering1488

dissever?1507

departurec1515

dividing1526

partition1530

sejunction1532

separatinga1557

sequestration1567

decision1574

divorce1593

disseveration16..

dissevermenta1603

sunderment1603

disparting1611

disunition1611

singling1625

divide1642

severation1649

concisure1656

department1677

secretion1696

abgregation1730

disengagement1791

disassociation1825

dispartment1869

dissociation1877

secernment1894

breakaway1897

delinkage1973

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. ii. sig. Giii^v The fatall sequestracion of our sowle and bodye.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 345 It was a violent commencement, and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration.

1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 266 This Antimony seem'd to have been a little refin'd by the sequestration of its unnecessary Sulphur.

1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets & Eng. Poets (1863) 177 Protesting..against the sequestration of pauses.

†c. Setting apart, consecration. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > [noun]

hallowingc900

blessing1070

benisonc1320

consecration1382

dedication1382

devotion1502

dedifyinga1513

sanctifying1526

dedicating1535

holy-making1535

sanctification1550

consecrating1579

sacring1610

devouement1611

devotement1621

sacrationa1627

devoting1640

sequestration1654

devote1659

dedicaturec1850

sacralization1918

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 58 Professions, Sequestred by God, (and in that Sequestration confirmed by Policy,) for the good of Mankind.

1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xvi. 301 This blood..was prepared by his voluntary sequestration, or sanctification of himself to this very use.

2. A state of being sequestered, separation, seclusion, retirement.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun]

sequestration1565

soleness1587

removednessa1616

sequestera1616

segregation1668

separation1685

insulation1798

isolation1833

social isolation1833

asideness1880

purdah1912

lockdown1984

1565 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. xlvii. 476 To have some greater Restraint put upon the Lady Lenox and some harder Sequestration than she now hath.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 59 And neuer noted in him any studie, Any retyrement, any sequestration, From open Haunts and Popularitie.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xciiii. sig. B6^v It is no other, but a place of retyring, and sequestration from the World.

1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xix. cliii. 380 Phylax quite tir'd with his long sequestration.

1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 213 You observe that a sequestration from the connexions of society, makes the heart cold and unfeeling.

1835 W. Wordsworth Death Charles Lamb 121 O gift divine of quiet sequestration!

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xiv. 350 [She] had shown her enduring consciousness of the injuries she had sustained, by a sixteen years' sequestration of herself from his side.

figurative.1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times To Rdr. sig. A8 I earnestly desire, that in heaven both thou and I may ever bee under Sequestration in that Mediator for Gods glory.

3. Law.

a. The appropriation of the income of a property in order to satisfy claims against the owner; esp. Ecclesiastical, a writ diverting the income of a benefice to the advantage of the creditors of the incumbent.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > appropriation of income of property

sequestration1565

1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 432 Arreistment and sequestratioun of the money foirsaid.

a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 8 The Church-Wardens tell me, that they have a Sequestration upon my Living.

b. Ecclesiastical. (See quot. 1641.)

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > holding income of benefice during vacancy

sequestration1575

1575–6 Act 18 Eliz. c. 11 §5 The Ordinary..shall grante the Sequestracion of suche Proffites to suche Inhabitante..w^thin the Parrishe.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 246 Sequestration..is used also for the gathering of fruits and profits of a benefice voyd, unto the use of the next Incumbent.

1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 102 On a Suspension there must be a Sequestration for the serving of the Cure.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. iv. 194 They were in consequence suspended from their ministry, and their livings put in sequestration.

c. An order of court appointing the goods of a deceased person whose executor or executors have renounced probate, to be secured and administered; also, a writ of Chancery empowering commissioners or a sheriff to seize the property of the person against whom it is directed.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > judgement or decision of court > decision in writing or court order > in executry cases

sequestration1591

testament dative1796

society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > writs issuing from Chancery

original writa1325

pleadable briefc1400

liberate1418

original1450

brieve1609

sequestration1768

1591 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 199 For probate bondes and regestring 16s. 4d. For relapsinge of the sequestration 5s. 2d.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 246 Sequestration..is used also for the act of an Ordinary, when no man will medle with the goods and chattels of one deceased.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxvii. 444 If he eludes the search of the serjeant also, then a sequestration issues to seise all his personal estate, and the profits of his real.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 102 Sir John..stood out all process of contempt to a sequestration.

1884 Cave in Law Times Rep. 51 661/1 Persons who were named as sequestrators in a writ of sequestration against B.

†d. The separation of a matter of controversy from the contending parties and its reference to an umpire or arbitrator. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > submission to arbitration

summission1419

compromissionc1425

compromise1464

submission1580

sequestration1592

1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §17 A The keeping of a thing litigious is called Sequestration, which is therefore defined, the deposition of a thing in controuersie.

e. Seizure of the possessions of a subject by the state; esp. the act of a belligerent power in seizing debts owing from its own subjects to the opposing power.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > confiscation or sequestration by state

confiscation1543

sequestration1568

confisking1583

confiscating1591

publication1611

1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 41^v They made Sequestration of the ship and goods, and caried the child to prison with the rest of his company.

1654 (title) An Ordinance for the better ordering and disposing the Estates under Sequestration.

1660 (title) An act for repeal of two acts for sequestrations.

1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. iii. 154 He paid 545l. for his delinquency and sequestration.

1823 W. Scott Peveril I. i. 7 His former delinquencies..were severely punished by fine and sequestration.

1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone III. viii. i. 9 The cabinet..considered the sequestration of the customs' dues at Smyrna to be practicable.

f. Scots Law. (See sequestrate v. 2d) (a) The placing of lands (belonging to a bankrupt, or of disputed ownership) under the control of a judicial factor or trustee. (b) In modern use: The placing of a bankrupt's estate in the hands of a trustee for division among the creditors.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > sequestration of disputed or indebted estate

sequestration1765

1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xii. §55 Sequestration of lands..is a judicial act of the court of session, whereby the management of the subject sequestered is taken from the former possessor, and intrusted to the care of a factor or steward named by the court.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. at Sequestration A petition praying for the sequestration of a land estate.

1870 Standard 16 Nov. The plaintiff, as the assignee of the Rev. J. Storie, who had become insolvent, brought this action to recover the total sum which had been paid to the defendant during the existence of the sequestration.

4. Seizure, confiscation.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods

prisea1325

seizure1482

disseisin1511

ouster1531

seiser1550

extent1592

prisal1628

sequestration1640

1640 in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1735) XX. 429 We..have accordingly..commanded our said Secretary to see the Sequestration [of the Office of Postmaster for foreign Parts, etc.] put in speedy Execution.

1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 316 Upon this News, Antony and Manuel..presently look'd upon the Goods as their own,..covering this Fraud of theirs with a Sequestration of English Goods that soon after ensu'd.

1895 R. Olney in Curr. Hist. V. 197 To resent and to resist any sequestration of Venezuelan soil by Great Britain.

5. Pathology. (See quot. 1898.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > detached piece of bone > formation of

sequestration1898

1898 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Sequestration, formation of a Sequestrum.

6. Chemistry. The action or state of being sequestered (sense 5).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > separation

isolation1854

sequestration1948

1948 Jrnl. Chem. Education 25 483/1 In sequestration, the multivalent positive ion has practically disappeared from the solution without being evolved as a gas, removed as a precipitate or deposited as an element.

1959 R. L. Smith Sequestration of Metals iii. 26 Sequestration is most usually achieved by chelation, even although chelation itself covers many phenomena which would not be considered sequestration.

1973 D. F. Long tr. Degrémont Water Treatm. Handbk. (ed. 4) ix. 293 The total sequestration of calcium requires about 50g of polyphosphate per degree TH.

7. attributive.

ΚΠ

1648 (title) An additional Ordinance of Parliament for the better regulating and speedy bringing in the Sequestration Monies out of the Estates of Papists and Delinquents.

1816 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (1826) II. 313 The proper manufacturing of the rude materials into a commodity, brings a person within the reach of the Sequestration Act.

1816 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (1826) II. 313 The provision which extends the Sequestration Law to manufacturers.

Draft additions December 2013

U.S. Politics. The action or procedure of imposing or scheduling an automatic cut on broad categories of government spending; (also) an instance of this.The procedure was introduced in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 as a means of enforcing budgetary targets.

ΚΠ

1985 B. Frank in Congress. Rec. 7 Oct. 26462/3 All my friends on the Republican side were saying that budget is no good and we have to have drastic reductions..and, not only that, we have to have the new provision with impoundments and sequestrations.

1986 Anal. President's Budgetary Proposals 1987 iii. 21 On the basis of actual 1986 budget authority after sequestration..the President's request..reflects about 8 percent real growth.

1997 R. D. Reischauer et al. Setting National Priorities i. 14 Sequestration would be imposed on discretionary programs.

2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 27 Apr. a12/2 That's among the $34 billion in so-called ‘unobligated funds’ that the Department of Transportation has on hand this year despite sequestration.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	sequestration
释义	sequestrationn. /siːkwɛˈstreɪʃən/ Forms: Middle English sequestracoun, Middle English sequestracyo(u)n, Middle English–1500s sequestracion, 1500s sequestratioun, 1500s– sequestration. Etymology: < late Latin sequestrātiōn-em, < Latin sequestrāre : see sequester v. Compare Old French sequestration, Spanish secuestracion, Portuguese sequestração, Italian sequestrazione. 1. a. An act or the action of sequestering, banishment, exile; esp. Ecclesiastical, a cutting off from the privileges of Church-membership, excommunication. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > [noun] flemeOE exilec1330 flemingc1374 relegationc1425 sequestrationa1450 exulation1535 extermination1586 deportation1595 exportationa1610 displantation1614 elimination1623 discommonwealthing1647 ejection1655 self-exile1712 uprooting1775 expatriation1816 dissettlement1880 uprootedness1927 society > faith > worship > excommunication > [noun] mansingOE amansingOE cursing?c1120 malloka1400 malediction1447 sequestrationa1450 comminationa1464 excommengement1495 excommuny1502 fulmination1502 excommunicationa1513 aggravation1531 anathematization1547 anathemization1549 anathema1565 anathemea1575 anathematical1583 anathematizing1593 sequestering1620 excommunion1641 dischurching1644 excision1647 excommunicating1648 unchurching1655 consecration1700 innodation1731 a1450 in J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests (1902) 63 Alle þat brekuth or lettuth sequestracion of any prelatys, wit-oute here leue. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 20 How þat we spek of curse oiþer it þat is dedly,..or it þat is sequestracoun of þe iust man fro comyn. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 357 Αϕορισμὸς. Sequestration. Whereby all offendours whatsoever, were excluded from the Sacraments. 1663 L. Womock Aron-bimnucha or Antidote to cure Calamites 2 The gall and worm~wood of his exile, was, his sequestration from the Ark, the holy Ordinances and worship of his God. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vi. 421 The punishment of delinquents was sequestration from the oratory, the table, and the common meetings. 1898 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Sequestration,..seclusion of infected persons or of lunatics. b. transferred. Separation, disjunction. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] asunderingeOE sheddingc1175 twinning?c1225 departingc1300 sunderinga1325 to-dighting1340 partingc1350 disseverancec1374 divisionc1374 severinga1382 departitionc1400 separation1413 sunderance1435 departisonc1440 deceperationa1450 severance1467 dissevering1488 dissever?1507 departurec1515 dividing1526 partition1530 sejunction1532 separatinga1557 sequestration1567 decision1574 divorce1593 disseveration16.. dissevermenta1603 sunderment1603 disparting1611 disunition1611 singling1625 divide1642 severation1649 concisure1656 department1677 secretion1696 abgregation1730 disengagement1791 disassociation1825 dispartment1869 dissociation1877 secernment1894 breakaway1897 delinkage1973 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. ii. sig. Giii^v The fatall sequestracion of our sowle and bodye. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 345 It was a violent commencement, and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration. 1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 266 This Antimony seem'd to have been a little refin'd by the sequestration of its unnecessary Sulphur. 1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets & Eng. Poets (1863) 177 Protesting..against the sequestration of pauses. †c. Setting apart, consecration. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > [noun] hallowingc900 blessing1070 benisonc1320 consecration1382 dedication1382 devotion1502 dedifyinga1513 sanctifying1526 dedicating1535 holy-making1535 sanctification1550 consecrating1579 sacring1610 devouement1611 devotement1621 sacrationa1627 devoting1640 sequestration1654 devote1659 dedicaturec1850 sacralization1918 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 58 Professions, Sequestred by God, (and in that Sequestration confirmed by Policy,) for the good of Mankind. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xvi. 301 This blood..was prepared by his voluntary sequestration, or sanctification of himself to this very use. 2. A state of being sequestered, separation, seclusion, retirement. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] sequestration1565 soleness1587 removednessa1616 sequestera1616 segregation1668 separation1685 insulation1798 isolation1833 social isolation1833 asideness1880 purdah1912 lockdown1984 1565 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. xlvii. 476 To have some greater Restraint put upon the Lady Lenox and some harder Sequestration than she now hath. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 59 And neuer noted in him any studie, Any retyrement, any sequestration, From open Haunts and Popularitie. View more context for this quotation 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xciiii. sig. B6^v It is no other, but a place of retyring, and sequestration from the World. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xix. cliii. 380 Phylax quite tir'd with his long sequestration. 1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 213 You observe that a sequestration from the connexions of society, makes the heart cold and unfeeling. 1835 W. Wordsworth Death Charles Lamb 121 O gift divine of quiet sequestration! 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xiv. 350 [She] had shown her enduring consciousness of the injuries she had sustained, by a sixteen years' sequestration of herself from his side. figurative.1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times To Rdr. sig. A8 I earnestly desire, that in heaven both thou and I may ever bee under Sequestration in that Mediator for Gods glory. 3. Law. a. The appropriation of the income of a property in order to satisfy claims against the owner; esp. Ecclesiastical, a writ diverting the income of a benefice to the advantage of the creditors of the incumbent. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > appropriation of income of property sequestration1565 1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 432 Arreistment and sequestratioun of the money foirsaid. a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 8 The Church-Wardens tell me, that they have a Sequestration upon my Living. b. Ecclesiastical. (See quot. 1641.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > holding income of benefice during vacancy sequestration1575 1575–6 Act 18 Eliz. c. 11 §5 The Ordinary..shall grante the Sequestracion of suche Proffites to suche Inhabitante..w^thin the Parrishe. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 246 Sequestration..is used also for the gathering of fruits and profits of a benefice voyd, unto the use of the next Incumbent. 1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 102 On a Suspension there must be a Sequestration for the serving of the Cure. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. iv. 194 They were in consequence suspended from their ministry, and their livings put in sequestration. c. An order of court appointing the goods of a deceased person whose executor or executors have renounced probate, to be secured and administered; also, a writ of Chancery empowering commissioners or a sheriff to seize the property of the person against whom it is directed. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > judgement or decision of court > decision in writing or court order > in executry cases sequestration1591 testament dative1796 society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > writs issuing from Chancery original writa1325 pleadable briefc1400 liberate1418 original1450 brieve1609 sequestration1768 1591 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 199 For probate bondes and regestring 16s. 4d. For relapsinge of the sequestration 5s. 2d. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 246 Sequestration..is used also for the act of an Ordinary, when no man will medle with the goods and chattels of one deceased. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxvii. 444 If he eludes the search of the serjeant also, then a sequestration issues to seise all his personal estate, and the profits of his real. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 102 Sir John..stood out all process of contempt to a sequestration. 1884 Cave in Law Times Rep. 51 661/1 Persons who were named as sequestrators in a writ of sequestration against B. †d. The separation of a matter of controversy from the contending parties and its reference to an umpire or arbitrator. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > submission to arbitration summission1419 compromissionc1425 compromise1464 submission1580 sequestration1592 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §17 A The keeping of a thing litigious is called Sequestration, which is therefore defined, the deposition of a thing in controuersie. e. Seizure of the possessions of a subject by the state; esp. the act of a belligerent power in seizing debts owing from its own subjects to the opposing power. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > confiscation or sequestration by state confiscation1543 sequestration1568 confisking1583 confiscating1591 publication1611 1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 41^v They made Sequestration of the ship and goods, and caried the child to prison with the rest of his company. 1654 (title) An Ordinance for the better ordering and disposing the Estates under Sequestration. 1660 (title) An act for repeal of two acts for sequestrations. 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. iii. 154 He paid 545l. for his delinquency and sequestration. 1823 W. Scott Peveril I. i. 7 His former delinquencies..were severely punished by fine and sequestration. 1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone III. viii. i. 9 The cabinet..considered the sequestration of the customs' dues at Smyrna to be practicable. f. Scots Law. (See sequestrate v. 2d) (a) The placing of lands (belonging to a bankrupt, or of disputed ownership) under the control of a judicial factor or trustee. (b) In modern use: The placing of a bankrupt's estate in the hands of a trustee for division among the creditors. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > sequestration of disputed or indebted estate sequestration1765 1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xii. §55 Sequestration of lands..is a judicial act of the court of session, whereby the management of the subject sequestered is taken from the former possessor, and intrusted to the care of a factor or steward named by the court. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. at Sequestration A petition praying for the sequestration of a land estate. 1870 Standard 16 Nov. The plaintiff, as the assignee of the Rev. J. Storie, who had become insolvent, brought this action to recover the total sum which had been paid to the defendant during the existence of the sequestration. 4. Seizure, confiscation. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods prisea1325 seizure1482 disseisin1511 ouster1531 seiser1550 extent1592 prisal1628 sequestration1640 1640 in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1735) XX. 429 We..have accordingly..commanded our said Secretary to see the Sequestration [of the Office of Postmaster for foreign Parts, etc.] put in speedy Execution. 1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 316 Upon this News, Antony and Manuel..presently look'd upon the Goods as their own,..covering this Fraud of theirs with a Sequestration of English Goods that soon after ensu'd. 1895 R. Olney in Curr. Hist. V. 197 To resent and to resist any sequestration of Venezuelan soil by Great Britain. 5. Pathology. (See quot. 1898.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > detached piece of bone > formation of sequestration1898 1898 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Sequestration, formation of a Sequestrum. 6. Chemistry. The action or state of being sequestered (sense 5). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > separation isolation1854 sequestration1948 1948 Jrnl. Chem. Education 25 483/1 In sequestration, the multivalent positive ion has practically disappeared from the solution without being evolved as a gas, removed as a precipitate or deposited as an element. 1959 R. L. Smith Sequestration of Metals iii. 26 Sequestration is most usually achieved by chelation, even although chelation itself covers many phenomena which would not be considered sequestration. 1973 D. F. Long tr. Degrémont Water Treatm. Handbk. (ed. 4) ix. 293 The total sequestration of calcium requires about 50g of polyphosphate per degree TH. 7. attributive. ΚΠ 1648 (title) An additional Ordinance of Parliament for the better regulating and speedy bringing in the Sequestration Monies out of the Estates of Papists and Delinquents. 1816 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (1826) II. 313 The proper manufacturing of the rude materials into a commodity, brings a person within the reach of the Sequestration Act. 1816 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (1826) II. 313 The provision which extends the Sequestration Law to manufacturers. Draft additions December 2013 U.S. Politics. The action or procedure of imposing or scheduling an automatic cut on broad categories of government spending; (also) an instance of this.The procedure was introduced in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 as a means of enforcing budgetary targets. ΚΠ 1985 B. Frank in Congress. Rec. 7 Oct. 26462/3 All my friends on the Republican side were saying that budget is no good and we have to have drastic reductions..and, not only that, we have to have the new provision with impoundments and sequestrations. 1986 Anal. President's Budgetary Proposals 1987 iii. 21 On the basis of actual 1986 budget authority after sequestration..the President's request..reflects about 8 percent real growth. 1997 R. D. Reischauer et al. Setting National Priorities i. 14 Sequestration would be imposed on discretionary programs. 2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 27 Apr. a12/2 That's among the $34 billion in so-called ‘unobligated funds’ that the Department of Transportation has on hand this year despite sequestration. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1450
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