sequestrate
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But if he escape conviction, you must sequestrate the living because of the debts.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
They have, besides, possessions in Belgium, Piedmont, and Italy, which I intend to sequestrate.
From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot
He accordingly issued a peremptory order to sequestrate every copy in Italy.
From Great Astronomers by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
If any cow in the herd shows the indurated end of the teat or the inflammation and nodular tender character of the gland, sequestrate her at once and give her a separate milker.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
They told her that Lord Carse found himself compelled, for family reasons, to sequestrate her.
From The Billow and the Rock by E.J. Wheeler
Looking back, Khodorkovsky thinks his mistake was to acknowledge that Yukos could be sequestrated from him, but he did not anticipate its destruction.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025
The bill and the subsequent legal costs saw the debt soar to a reported £30,000 and in 2000 Mrs Van Overwaele was sequestrated - the Scottish legal term for being made legally bankrupt.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2022
The proposed jurors were interviewed anonymously, and those selected will remain so – and sequestrated for the duration of the trial, expected to last several months.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2018
That where an individual is sentenced to imprisonment, an inventory shall be taken of his property, and they shall not be sequestrated or sold.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
It is well that where they are first sequestrated there they should be permanently kept.
From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles B. Towns
The grant will help fund the conservation and breeding of tropical forage grasses with deep roots for sequestrating carbon in soil.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2022
In September Napoleon demanded Stein's dismissal, and enforced the demand by sequestrating Frederick William's Westphalian estates, threatening at the same time to continue the French occupation of Prussia indefinitely.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
King John kept monasteries without any abbot for years, sequestrating the estates in the meantime, and leaving the monks to make the best of it.
From The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp
Cardinal Frederick alone enjoined his curates to impress upon the people the importance of declaring every case, and of sequestrating all infected or suspected goods.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
In her distress lest Jim should take too much, the claimant of his name and protection had evidently been sequestrating a large share for herself.
From Waring's Peril by Charles King
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