English-Thai Dictionary

sequester

VI โดดเดี่ยว  แยกตัว ออกมา  สันโดษ  separate isolate dod-diao

 

sequester

VT ทำให้ โดดเดี่ยว  แยก  แยกจาก  ยกเลิก  เพิกถอน  อายัด  ยึดทรัพย์  seclude tam-hai-dod-diao

 

sequestered

A สันโดษ  แยกจาก 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SEQUESTER

v.t.[L. sequestro, to sever or separate, to put int the hands of and indifferent person, as a deposit; sequester, belonging to mediation or umpirage, and as a noun an umpire, referee, midiator. This word is probably a compound of se and the root of quaestus, quaesitus, sought. See Question. ] 1. To separate from the owner for a time; to seize or take possession of some property which belongs to another, and hold it tillthe profits hve paid the demand for which it is taken.
Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery, were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the degrees of the court. and now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of the ecclesiastecs. Blackstone.
2. To take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indiffernt person.
3. To put aside; to remove; to separate; frome other things.
I had wholly sequestered my civil affairs. Bacon.
4. To sequester one's self, to separate one's self from seciety; to withdraw or retire; to seclude one's self for the sake of privacy or solitude; as, to sequester one's self from action.
5. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity.
It was his taylor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts which sequestered him. South.

 

SEQUESTER

v.i.To decline, as a window, any concern with the estate of a husband.

 

SEQUESTERED

pp. Seized asnd detained for a time, to satisfy a demand; separated; also, being in retirement; secluded; private; as a sequestered situation.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SEQUESTER

Se *ques "ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestered; p. pr. & vb. n.Sequestering.] Etym: [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 )

 

Defn: 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.

 

SEQUESTER

SEQUESTER Se *ques "ter, v. i.

 

1. To withdraw; to retire. [Obs. ] To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton.

 

2. (Law )

 

Defn: To renounce (as a widow may ) any concern with the estate of her husband.

 

SEQUESTER

SEQUESTER Se *ques "ter, n.

 

1. Sequestration; separation. [R.]

 

2. (Law )

 

Defn: A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee. Bouvier.

 

3. (Med. )

 

Defn: Same as Sequestrum.

 

SEQUESTERED

SEQUESTERED Se *ques "tered, a.

 

Defn: Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sequester

se ques ter |səˈkwestər səˈkwɛstər | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 isolate or hide away (someone or something ): Tiberius was sequestered on an island | the jurors had been sequestered since Monday | the artist sequestered himself in his studio for two years. • [ no obj. ] Chemistry form a chelate or other stable compound with (an ion, atom, or molecule ) so that it is no longer available for reactions. 2 take legal possession of (assets ) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met: the power of courts to sequester the assets of unions. • take forcible possession of (something ); confiscate: rebel property was sequestered and a military government installed. • legally place (the property of a bankrupt ) in the hands of a trustee for division among the creditors: (as adj. sequestered ) : a trustee in a sequestered estate. DERIVATIVES se ques tra ble |siˈkwestrəbəl |adjective, se ques tra tor |ˈsēkwiˌstrātər, ˈsek-, siˈkwesˌtrātər |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French sequestrer or late Latin sequestrare ‘commit for safekeeping, ’ from Latin sequester ‘trustee. ’

 

sequestered

se ques tered |səˈkwestərd səˈkwɛstərd | ▶adjective (of a place ) isolated and hidden away: a wild sequestered spot.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sequester

sequester |sɪˈkwɛstə | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 isolate or hide away: she is sequestered in deepest Dorset | the artist sequestered himself in his studio for two years. 2 another term for sequestrate. 3 Chemistry form a chelate or other stable compound with (an ion, atom, or molecule ) so that it is no longer available for reactions. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French sequestrer or late Latin sequestrare ‘commit for safekeeping ’, from Latin sequester ‘trustee ’.

 

sequestered

se ¦ques |tered |sɪˈkwɛstəd | ▶adjective (of a place ) isolated and hidden away: a wild sequestered spot.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sequester

sequester verb 1 he sequestered himself from the world: isolate oneself, hide away, shut oneself away, seclude oneself, cut oneself off, segregate oneself; closet oneself, cloister oneself, withdraw, retire. 2 the government sequestered his property: confiscate, seize, sequestrate, take, appropriate, expropriate, impound, commandeer.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sequester

sequester verb 1 he sequestered himself from the world: isolate oneself, hide oneself away, shut oneself away, seclude oneself, cut /shut oneself off, set oneself apart, segregate oneself; closet oneself, withdraw oneself, remove oneself, retire. 2 the government sequestered all his property: confiscate, seize, sequestrate, take possession of, take, appropriate, expropriate, impound, commandeer, arrogate; Law distrain, attach, disseize; Scottish Law poind.

 

sequestered

sequestered adjective she wondered if she had been unwise to shut herself away in this sequestered spot: secluded, cloistered, hidden away, concealed, tucked away, hard to find; isolated, out of the way, off the beaten track, remote, cut off; unfrequented, lonely; quiet, private, secret; archaic retired. ANTONYMS busy; central, public.

 

Duden Dictionary

Sequester

Se ques ter Substantiv, maskulin , der |Sequ e ster |der Sequester; Genitiv: des Sequesters, Plural: die Sequester 1 lateinisch sequester, zum Adjektiv sequester = vermittelnd, zu: sequi, Sequenz Rechtssprache jemand, der amtlich mit der treuhänderischen Verwaltung einer strittigen Sache beauftragt ist 2 auch: das Sequester lateinisch sequestrum; zum Adjektiv sequester = vermittelnd, zu: sequi, Sequenz Rechtssprache Sequestration 1 etwas unter Sequester stellen 3 auch: das Sequester zu spätlateinisch sequestrare, sequestrieren Medizin abgestorbenes Teil eines Gewebes, besonders eines Knochens

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sequester

se ques ter /sɪkwéstə r /動詞 他動詞 1 〖be ～ed 〗〈陪審員などが 〉隔離される 〘公判期間中, 一般の人々との接触を避けるため 〙.2 〖be ～ed 〗〘法 〙〈財産などが 〉仮差し押さえされる ; 没収される .3 〘国際法 〙〈敵国の財産 〉を接収する .4 ｟文 ｠…を隠退させる ; 〖～ oneself 〗 «…から » 隠退する «from » .se qu é s tered 形容詞 ｟文 ｠世間から遠く離れた, 閑静な 〈場所 〉; 隠退した .