sequester

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

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss. Bacon called?
• What is to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton called?
• What is to renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband called?
• What is 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 called?