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sequestration
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sequestration has 4 senses
- sequestration(n = noun.act) segregation - the act of segregating or sequestering; "sequestration of the jury" is a kind of separation
- sequestration(n = noun.process) Array - the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions; Array is a kind of chemical action, chemical change, chemical process
- sequestration(n = noun.communication) Array - a writ that authorizes the seizure of property; Array is a kind of judicial writ, writ
- sequestration(n = noun.act) requisition - seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized; Array is a kind of appropriation
Derived form verb sequester4
Derived form verb sequester3
Derived form verb sequester2
CIDE DICTIONARY
sequestration, n. [L. sequestratio: cf. F. séquestration.].
- The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary. Burrill. [1913 Webster]
- The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society. [1913 Webster]"Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . .
This loathsome sequestration have I had." [1913 Webster] - Disunion; disjunction. Boyle. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
sequestration
Taking
N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.Penalty
N penalty, retribution, pain, pains and penalties, weregild, wergild, peine forte et dure, penance, the devil to pay, fine, mulct, amercement, forfeit, forfeiture, escheat, damages, deodand, sequestration, confiscation, premunire, doomage.
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