SEQUESTERED


Meaning of SEQUESTERED in English

adjective

Etymology: from past participle of sequester (I)

1. obsolete : cut off from companionship or congenial surroundings : isolated , segregated

a poor sequestered stag that from the hunters … had taken a hurt — Shakespeare

2.

a. : confiscated, impounded

when the royal officers in Philadelphia seized fifty pipes of Madeira … a mob assaulted them and stole the sequestered goods — C.A. & Mary Beard

b. archaic : deprived of privilege or property : dispossessed

3.

a. : withdrawn from public view : sheltered , secluded

sat close together … in the sequestered pergola — L.C.Douglas

b. : living the life of a recluse : solitary

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.