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  • adjective Obsolete form of sequestered.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sequestre.

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Examples

  • But upon his beating and misusing her she was sequestred to one Barkers, a proctor, and from thence to Sir Henry Billingsleyes, (1720) where she yet remaines till the matter be tried.

    London and the Kingdom - Volume I

  • This sequestred village was favourable to his love of poetry and picturesque scenery; which displayed itself at large in his English Garden, and was the foundation of his lasting friendship with Mr. Gilpin, who to testify his esteem, dedicated to him his _Observations on the Wye_.

    On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

  • Lady _Elizabeth_, was sequestred from her, and her Husband enjoyned not to keep company with her; so that on both sides he may be said to be very indear'd to Queen _Elizabeth_, who was also his Godmother, a further tye of her kindness and respects unto him.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • Sir _Thomas_, yet where Beauty commands, all discretion being sequestred, created in the Viscount a hatred towards him; and in the

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • [Sidenote: Préests are sequestred frō their wiues.] 1 That préests, deacons, and subdeacons should liue chastlie, and kéepe no women in their houses, except such as were neere of kin to them.

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I. Raphael Holinshed

  • After many bustles in the world, he sequestred himself wholly to _Malmsbury_, where he died better inform'd (as I have heard) of the Deity, than in the former part of his life he seemeth to have been.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • In the meantime Louis the Desired, the contemptible King of France, decreed that the property of the Buonaparte family should be sequestred; the old

    Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804

  • _In the world, in seculo_, in the bustle of human affairs, from which we are now happily sequestred, _in the world_, to which the votaries of solitude have no relation.

    Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

  • After many bustles in the world, he sequestred himself wholly to Malmsbury, where he died better inform'd (as I have heard) of the Deity, than in the former part of his life he seemeth to have been.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698 1687

  • His Mother also being Servant to the Lady Elizabeth, was sequestred from her, and her Husband enjoyned not to keep company with her; so that on both sides he may be said to be very indear'd to Queen Elizabeth, who was also his Godmother, a further tye of her kindness and respects unto him.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698 1687

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