Se*ques"tered (?), a. Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper.
Along the cool, sequestered vale of life.
Gray.
Se*ques"tra*ble (?), a. Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable
to sequestration.
Se*ques"tral (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to a sequestrum. Quian.
Se*ques"trate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestrated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sequestrating.] To sequester.
Seq`ues*tra"tion (?), n. [L. sequestratio: cf. F. séquestration.] 1.
(a) (Civil & Com. Law) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing
in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for
it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be
voluntary or involuntary. (b) (Chancery) A prerogative process
empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's
property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears
himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court. (c) (Eccl.
Law) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed
clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some
debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a
benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the
disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose
estate no man will meddle with. Craig. Tomlins. Wharton. (d) (Internat.
Law) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the
state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of
debts due from its subjects to the enemy. Burrill.
2. The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement;
seclusion from society.
Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome
sequestration have I had.
Shak.