sequester

Meanings

To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
To separate in order to store.
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
To seize and hold enemy property.
To withdraw; to retire.
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

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

From Middle English sequestren and sequestre, from Old French sequestrer , from Late Latin sequestrō, from Latin sequester ("mediator, depositary"), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.

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