Se*quen"tial (?), a. Succeeding or following in order. --
Se*quen"tial*ly, adv.
Se*ques"ter (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Sequestering.] [F. séquestrer, 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.