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What does "sequester" mean?

Sequester: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss. Bacon.
  2. 3.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.
  3. 4.To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton.
  4. 5.(Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
  5. 6.Sequestration; separation. [R.]
  6. 7.(Law) 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.
  7. 8.(Med.) Same as Sequestrum.

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