sequestered  /sɪkw'ɛstɚd/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  sequestered
  (a.)隱退的,幽靜的,偏僻的,扣押的

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Sequester \Se*ques"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sequestered}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Sequestering}.] [F. s['e]questrer, L.
     sequestrare to give up for safe keeping, from sequester a
     depositary or trustee in whose hands the thing contested was
     placed until the dispute was settled. Cf. {Sequestrate}.]
     1. (Law) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from
        parties in controversy and put into the possession of an
        indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as
        property belonging to another, and hold it till the
        profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or
        till the owner has performed the decree of court, or
        clears himself of contempt; in international law, to
        confiscate.
  
              Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were,
              in the last resort, sequestered and detained to
              enforce the decrees of the court. And now the
              profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the
              debts of ecclesiastics.               --Blackstone.
  
     2. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration;
        to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
  
              It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions
              and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
                                                    --South.
  
     3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from
        other things.
  
              I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss. --Bacon.
  
     4. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude;
        to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
  
              When men most sequester themselves from action.
                                                    --Hooker.
  
              A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a
              higher conversation.                  --Bacon.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Sequestered \Se*ques"tered\, a.
     Retired; secluded. ``Sequestered scenes.'' --Cowper.
  
           Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. --Gray.

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  sequestered
       adj 1: providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic
              world of books"; "sat close together in the
              sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive
              calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"
              [syn: {cloistered}, {reclusive}, {secluded}]
       2: kept separate and secluded; "a sequestered jury"