sequestrate

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Suppose, my dear Sir, they should proceed to arrest you, or to sequestrate the revenue of your vicarage.

From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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

So that her children should not be deprived of their father's fortune, which the nation could sequestrate as the property of an émigré, Mme. de Vaubadon, like many other royalists, had sued for a divorce.

From The House of the Combrays by Le Notre, G., [pseud.]

In Freeland no one possesses this power because here no one need sequestrate the land in order that it may be tilled.

From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Hertzka, Theodor

His creditors were willing enough to wait, but one rascal refused to do so, and swore he would sequestrate him.

From The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)