different between sequester vs sequesterable

English

Etymology

From Old French sequestrer , from Late Latin sequestr? (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“follow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??kw?s.t?/, /s??kw?s.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??kw?s.t?/, /s??kw?s.t?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)

Verb

sequester (third-person singular simple present sequesters, present participle sequestering, simple past and past participle sequestered)

1. To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
   • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     when men most sequester themselves from action

2. To separate in order to store.

3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.

4. (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
5. (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
6. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
   • c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV

     It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.

7. (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.

8. (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
9. (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
10. To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Synonyms

• segregate

Derived terms

• sequestrable adjective
• sequestered adjective
• sequestrate verb
• sequestration noun
• sequestrator noun

Related terms

• sequel
• sequence
• sequacious
• segue

Translations

Noun

sequester (plural sequesters)

1. sequestration; separation
2. (law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.

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3. (medicine) A sequestrum.

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References

Anagrams

• requestes, sequestre

English

Etymology

sequester +? -able

Adjective

sequesterable (comparative more sequesterable, superlative most sequesterable)

1. Capable of, or suitable for, being sequestered.