sequestrate
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He accordingly issued a peremptory order to sequestrate every copy in Italy.
From Great Astronomers by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
He commissioned them and the chief alguazil of Valladolid to seize the person of the archbishop, to sequestrate his goods, and draw up an inventory of them.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
“My father is my father; but Joseph is just as much my uncle as he’s yours; and you have no right to sequestrate his person.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Suppose, my dear Sir, they should proceed to arrest you, or to sequestrate the revenue of your vicarage.
From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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
With this invitation he had inserted an additional offer: he would endeavor to persuade Oliver Cromwell to restore the sequestrated estates in England of any royalist officer who consented to assist.
From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
His effects were sequestrated, and a day of sale announced.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
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
He had actually served as one of the King's Commissioners for sequestrating the estates of Parliamentarians in three English counties.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
And the other was his greed in taking and sequestrating the revenues of Holy Church, to squander them evilly.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani
"We have no excuse for sequestrating the estates," replied Ireton.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
He did not distinguish himself, one of his earliest acts being to urge the promulgation of the above-mentioned decree sequestrating the property of all who were then opposed to the new order of things.
From Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Sara Yorke Stevenson
