Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who sequesters property, or who takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy or secure the satisfaction of a demand out of its rents or profits.
- noun One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits.
- noun One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
sequestrates .
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Examples
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I incline therefore to believe, that the terms sequestrator and committee-man apply not to the poet, but to his patron Sir Gilbert, to whom their propriety cannot be doubted.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882
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Nussboeck, town sequestrator at Vienna, for some time the guardian of Beethoven's nephew.
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 Wallace, Lady 1866
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The latter is unfit; because, on the one hand, his office as sequestrator and administrator of houses and lands, occupies his time too much to enable him properly to undertake the duties of guardian to the boy; and, on the other, because his previous occupation as a paper manufacturer, does not inspire me with any confidence that he possesses the intelligence or judgment indispensable to conduct a scientific education.
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 Wallace, Lady 1866
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Only I will add, that I find our Saviour in Tertullian, and ancient Latin Fathers, constantly styled a sequestrator, [16] in the proper notion of the word.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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The sequestrator who had driven the one from his parsonage had driven the other from his manor-house.
History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860
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His father had been a committee-man and sequestrator under the Commonwealth.
History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860
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The other son, M. Alexandre, declared his intention to have the entire matter decided by law, and even to question the legacy, if he could, requiring, first of all, to have everything sealed, and to have an inventory taken and a sequestrator appointed, etc.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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But stay — was there not a sequestrator and committeeman of that name?
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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But stay -- was there not a sequestrator and committeeman of that name?
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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No. I will never show my grey beard, worn in sorrow for my sovereign's death, to move the compassion of some proud sequestrator, who perhaps was one of the parricides.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
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