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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Sequester \Se*ques"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestered; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Sequestering.] [F. s['e]questrer, L.
     sequestrare to give up for safe keeping, from sequester a
     depositary or trustee in whose hands the thing contested was
     placed until the dispute was settled. Cf. Sequestrate.]
     1. (Law) 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration;
        to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions
              and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
                                                    --South.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from
        other things.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss. --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude;
        to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              When men most sequester themselves from action.
                                                    --Hooker.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a
              higher conversation.                  --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. (Chem.) To bind, so as to make [a metal ion] unavailable
        in its normal form; -- said of chelating agents, such as
        EDTA, which, in a solution, bind tightly to multivalent
        metal cations, thereby lowering their effective
        concentration in solution. Compounds employed particularly
        for this purpose are called sequestering agents, or
        chelating agents. In biochemistry, sequestration is one
        means of reversibly inhibiting enzymes which depend on
        divalent metal cations (such as Magnesium) for their
        activity. Such agents are used, for example, to help
        preserve blood for storage and subsequent use in
        transfusion. >
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Sequestered \Se*ques"tered\, a.
     Retired; secluded. ``Sequestered scenes.'' --Cowper.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. --Gray.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Sequester \Se*ques"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestered; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Sequestering.] [F. s['e]questrer, L.
     sequestrare to give up for safe keeping, from sequester a
     depositary or trustee in whose hands the thing contested was
     placed until the dispute was settled. Cf. Sequestrate.]
     1. (Law) 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.
  
              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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Sequestered \Se*ques"tered\, a.
     Retired; secluded. ``Sequestered scenes.'' --Cowper.
  
           Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. --Gray.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  sequestered
       adj 1: providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic
              world of books"; "sat close together in the
              sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive
              calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"
              [syn: cloistered, reclusive, secluded]
       2: kept separate and secluded; "a sequestered jury"

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  sequestered
     a.
     1 Having undergone sequestration.
     2 Of a location-isolated, off the beaten track.
     vb.
     (infl of en sequester  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  sequestered
     a.
     1 Having undergone sequestration.
     2 Of a location-isolated, off the beaten track.
     vb.
     (infl of en sequester  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  sequestered
     a.
     1 Having undergone sequestration.
     2 Of a location-isolated, off the beaten track.
     vb.
     (infl of en sequester  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  sequestered
     a.
     1 Having undergone sequestration.
     2 Of a location-isolated, off the beaten track.
     vb.
     (infl of en sequester  ed-form)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  sequestered
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm s equester ed)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Sequestered /siːkwˈɛstəd/
  معزول

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  sequestered /siːkwˈɛstəd/
   [poet.] abgeschieden, weltabgeschieden , in Abgeschiedenheit
           Note: Ort
           Note: place
           Note: usually before noun

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  sequestered /siːkwˈɛstəd/
  isoliert
        "He was sequestered in his room."  - Er wurde in seinem Zimmer isoliert.
        "The jury was sequestered until a verdict was reached."  - Die Geschworenen wurden bis zur Urteilsfindung isoliert.
        "The painter sequestered himself in his studio for three months."  - Der Maler isolierte sich drei Monate lang in seinem Atelier.
   see: sequester sb., sequestering
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  sequestered /siːkwˈɛstəd/
  isoliert, abgetrennt
   see: sequester sth., sequestering
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  sequestered /siːkwˈɛstəd/
  sequestriert, einen Sequester gebildet
   see: sequester, sequestering
  

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  sequestered /siːkwˈɛstəd/
  1. zár alatt levô
  2. csendes
  3. elhagyott
  4. félreesô
  5. visszavonult
  6. magányos
  7. elzárkózott

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/sɪˈkwɛstɝd/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "sequestered":
     abstruse, alienated, anchoritic, anonymous, at rest, beclouded,
     blind, buried, calm, cloistered, close, closet, closeted, clouded,
     concealed, cool, covered, covert, detached, disarticulated,
     disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed,
     disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, disunited, divided, divorced,
     domestic, dwindling, ebbing, eclipsed, eremitic, estranged,
     even-tenored, halcyon, hermetic, hermitic, hermitish, hid, hidden,
     hushed, impassive, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah,
     in the wings, incognito, incommunicado, inmost, innermost,
     interior, intimate, inward, isolated, latent, moldering,
     mysterious, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, pacific,
     peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy, quiescent,
     quiet, recluse, recondite, removed, reposeful, reposing, restful,
     resting, retired, scattered, secluded, secluse, seclusive, secret,
     segregated, separated, sequestrated, sheltered, shut in, shut off,
     shut up, smooth, stay-at-home, still, still as death, stillish,
     stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated,
     under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps,
     underground, undisturbed, unknown, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled,
     unstirring, untroubled, waning, withdrawn, wrapped in clouds
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 退隐的,幽静的,偏僻的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 隐退的,幽静的,偏僻的,扣押的

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