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w, 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 appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use. Sir T. Browne.

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

or abasement); as, the man has come to himself. By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as, he sits or studies by himself. -- To leave one to himself, to withdraw from him; to let him take his own course.

Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat. How couldst thou find this dark, sequestered nook Milton.

Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer. Reason . . . then retires Into her private cell when nature rests. Milton.

Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. J. Philips.

A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun. Addison.

Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.

Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.

To sequester.

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

To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] An agent singling itself from consorts. Hooker.

se; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career. Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. Gray.