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The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.

tion by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory. In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. Addison. Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. Prescott.

To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.

Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games.

The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.

A woman skilled in equestrianism; a horsewoman.

Inquiry; quest; search. [R.] Spenser. The laborious and vexatious inquest that the soul must make after science. South.

A second conquest.

ire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty. I will marry her, sir, at your request. Shak.

One who requests; a petitioner.

to confiscate. Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blackstone.

Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray.

Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.

Of or pertaining to a sequestrum. Quian.

To sequester.

seclusion from society. Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome sequestration have I had. Shak.

One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits.

A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.

Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title.

Not called in question; not doubted.