sequent 
Either I am 
The fore-horse in the team, or I am none 
That draw i 1 the sequent trace. 
Fletcher (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 2. 
There he dies, and leaves his race 
Growing into a nation, and now grown 
Suspected to a sequent king. 
Milton, P. L., xii. 165. 
2. Followingby natural or logical consequence. 
Indeed your "O Lord, sir!" is very sequent to your 
whipping. Shak., All's Well, ii. 2. 56. 
Those enemies of the table, heat and haste, are joy- 
killers, with sequent dyspepsia. 
A. Rhodes, Monsieur at Home, p. 36. 
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To sequester out of the world into Atlantick and Ellto- 
pian polities, which never can be drawn into use, will not 
mend our condition. Hilton, Areopagitfca, p. 25. 
2. In law, to renounce or decline, as a widow 
any concern with the estate of her husband. 
[Rare.] 
sequester (se-kwes'ter), n. [< sequester, r.] If. 
The act of sequestering ; sequestration; sepa- 
ration; seclusion. 
This hand of yours requires 
A sequester from liberty. Shak., Othello, iii. 4. 40. 
2. In law, a person with whom two or more 
parties to a suit or controversy deposit the 
of anguish. O. W. Cable, The Orandissimes, p. 335. 
II. a. It. A follower. [Bare.] 
He hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger 
queen's. Shalt., L. L. L., iv. 2. 142. 
2. A sequence or sequel; that which follows 
as a result. [Rare.] 3. That which follows sequestered (se-kwes'terd), p. a 
by an observed order of succession: used, in private; retired. 
opposition to antecedent, where one wishes to 
avoid the implication of the relation of effect 
to cause that would be conveyed by the use of 
consequent. 
We can find no case in which a given antecedent is the 
only antecedent to a given sequent. 
W. R. drone, Corr. of Forces, p. 16. 
sequentia (se-kwen'shi-ii), . [LL., a following : 
see sequence.'] In music, same as sequence, 5. 
sequential (se-kwen'shal), a. [< LL. sequentia, 
sequence, + -al.~\ Beiiig in succession ; suc- 
ceeding; following. 
between two parties; an umpire. 
[Rare.] 
Kynge lohn and pope lulius dyed l>oth in one day, 
wherbyhe [Basilius] lacked a conuenient sequester or so 
licitoure. It. Eden, tr. of Paolo Oiovio (First Books on 
(America, ed. Arber, p. 309). 
1. Secluded; 
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life 
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 
dray, Elegy. 
I sing in simple Scottish lays, 
The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene. 
Burnt, Cottar's Saturday Night. 
2. Separated from others; being sent or hav- 
ing gone into retirement. 
To the which place a poor sequenter'd stag, 
That from the hunter s aim bad ta'en a hurt, 
Did come to languish. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 1. 33. 
Mr. Owen, a sequester'd and learned minister, preach'd 
in my parlour. Evelyn, Diary, March 6, 1649. 
Both years (1688, 18881 are leap years, and the sequen- 
tial days of the week in relation to the days of the month sequestra, M. Plural of sequestrum. 
exactly correspond. N. <radQ.,7thser.,IV. 183, note, sequestrable (se-kwes'tra-bl), a. [< sequester 
sequentially (se-kwen-shi-al'i-ti), n. [< se- + -able.] Capable of feeing sequestered or 
quential + -ity.] ' The state of being sequen- separated; subject or liable to sequestration, 
tial; naturalconnectionandprogressofthought, Boyle. 
incident, or the like. sequestral (se-kwes'tral), o. [< sequestrum, + 
The story is remarkable for its fresh naturalness and -at.] Pertaining to a sequestrum. 
sequentially. Harper's Mag., LXVIII. 158. Around the sequestral tube the bone has the involucral 
Sequentially (se-kwen'shal-i), adv. By se- thickening which has been Jeltin the 8t ">P- 
quence or succession. 
sequestt, v. t. [Abbr. of sequester.] Same as sequestrate (se-kwes'trat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
sequester. sequestrated, ppr. sequestrating. {<.'L1j.sequ.es- 
Femissapan sequesting himselfe. I should not importune tratus, pp. of sequestrare, surrender, lay aside: 
him for victuall, and to draw his troupes, found not the 
Chawonests so forward as he expected. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, 1. 92. 
sequester (se-kwes'ter), v. [Early mod. E. 
sequestre; < OF. sequestrer, F. sequestrer = Pr. 
Pg. sequestrar = Sp. secuestrar = It. seques- 
trare, < LL. sequestrare, surrender, remove, lay 
aside, < L. sequester, a mediator, trustee, agent; 
prob. orig. a 'follower,' one who attends, < 
sequi, follow, attend: see sequent.] I. trans. 
see sequester.] It. To set apart from others; 
1. To put aside; remove; separate from other 
things; seclude; withdraw. 
So that I shall now sequester the from thyne euill pur- 
pose. William Thorpe (1407), Trial of Thorpe, 1 Howells 
[State Tr., 176. 
Why are you sequester'd from all your train? 
Shak., Tit. And., ii. 3. 75. 
The rest of the holy Sabbath, I sequester my body and 
mind as much as I can from worldly affairs. 
HoweU, Letters, I. vi. 32. 
There are few that know how to sequester themselves 
entirely from perishable creatures. 
Thomas a Kempis, Imit. of Christ (trans.), iii. 31. 
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one 
object from the embarrassing variety. 
Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 320. 
2. In tow: (a) To separate from the owner for 
a time; seize or take possession of, as the 
property and income of a debtor, until the 
claims of creditors be satisfied. 
The process of sequestration is a writ or commission 
issuing under the Great Seal, sometimes directed to the 
sheriff or (which is most usual) to certain persons of the 
plaintiff's own nomination, empowering him or them to 
enter upon and sequester the real and personal estate and 
effects of the defendant (or some particular part or parcel 
of his landsX and to take, receive, and sequester the rents, 
issues, and profits thereof. 
E. R. Daniell, Chancery Pleading and Practice, 1255. 
(6) To set aside from the power of either party, 
as a matter at issue, by order of a court of law. 
For use in Scots law, see sequestrate. See also 
In general contagions more perish for want of necessa- 
ries than by the malignity of the disease, they being se- 
questrated from mankind. Arbvlhnat, Effects of Air. 
2. In law, to sequester. Especially (a) In Scots 
law, to take possession of, as of the estate of a bankrupt, 
with the view of realizing it and distributing it equitably 
among the creditors, (b) To seize for the use of the state. 
See sequestration, 1 (/). 
':-wes- or se-kwes-tra'shon), 
?. sequestration, F. sequestration = Sp. 
secuestracion = Pg. sequestraqa'o = It. sequestra- 
zione, < LL. sequestratio(n-), a sequestration: 
see sequestrate, sequester.] 1. The act of se- 
questering, or the state of being sequestered or 
set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion 
from society. 
Our comfort and delight expressed by . . . sequestration 
from ordinary labours, the toils and cares whereof are not 
meet to be companions of such gladness. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 70. 
The sacred Book, 
In dusty sequestration wrapt too long. 
Wordsworth, Eccles. Sonnets, ii. 29. 
There is much that tends to give them [women] a reli- 
gious height which men do not attain. Their sequestra- 
tion from affairs, and from the injury to the moral sense 
which affairs often inflict, aids this. Emerson, Woman. 
2t. Disunion; disjunction; division; rupture. 
[Some commentators are of opinion that in 
the quotation from Shakspere the word means 
' sequel.'] 
It was a violent commencement [i. e., the love of Des- 
demona for Othello], and thou shalt see an answerable se- 
questration. Shak., Othello, i. 3. 361. 
Without any sequestration of elementary principles. 
Boyle. 
3. In law: (a) The separation of a thing in 
controversy from the possession of those who 
contend for it. (6) The setting apart of the 
Sequoia 
a demand; especially, in ecclesiastical prac- 
tice, a species of execution for debt in the case 
of a beneficed clergyman, issued by the bishop 
of the diocese on the receipt of a writ to that 
effect, under which the profits of the benefice 
are paid over to the creditor until his claim is 
satisfied, (e) The gathering of the fruits of a 
vacant benefice for the use of the next incum- 
bent. (/) The seizure of the property of an in- 
dividual for the use of the state : particularly 
applied to the seizure by a belligerent power 
of debts due by its subjects to the enemy. 
(</) The seizing of the estate of an insolvent or 
a bankrupt, by decree of a competent court, 
for behoof of the creditors. 4. The formation 
of a sequestrum ; the separation of a dead piece 
of bone (or cartilage) from the living bone (or 
cartilage) about it. 
sequestrator (sek'wes- or se'kwes-tra-tor), n. 
[CLL. sequestrator, one who hinders or impedes, 
< sequestrare, put aside, sequestrate: see se- 
quester.] I. 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. 
He is scared with the menaces of some prating Seques- 
trator. Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 238. 
I am fallen into the hands of publicans and sequestrators, 
and they have taken all from me. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, ii. 6. 
2. One to whom the keeping of sequestered 
property is committed. 
A sequestration is usually directed to four sequestrators, 
and care ought to be taken that the persons named be 
such as are able to answer for what shall oome to their 
hands, in case they should be called upon to account. 
E. R. Daniell, Chancery Pleading and Practice, 1266. 
sequestrotomy (se-kwes-trot'o-mi), n. [< NL. 
sequestrum + Gr. -TO/I'M, < rtuvtiv, rauelv, cut.] A 
cutting operation for the removal of a seques- 
trum. 
sequestrum (se-kwes'trum), i. ; pi. se questra 
(-tra). [NL., < ML. sequestrum, something put 
in sequestration: see sequester.] A necrosed 
section of bone (or cartilage) which separates 
itself from the surrounding living bone (or car- 
tilage) Sequestrum forceps, in surg., a forceps for 
use in removing a sequestrum. 
sequin (se'kwin, formerly and better sek'in), 
n. [Also zechin, cnequin, secchin, seehino (= G. 
zechine, < It. ) ; < F. sequin = Sp. cequi, zcqui = 
Pg. sequim, < It. zeccnino, a Venetian coin, < 
zecca = Sp. zeca, seea, a place of coining, a 
mint, < Ar. sikka, a die for coins: see sicca.] 
A gold coin of Venice (Italian zeecJiino or :ec- 
chino (Voro), first minted about 1280, and issued 
by the doges till the extinction of the Venetian 
republic. (See zeccliino.) It was worth rather more 
than 9., about 82.18, and bore on the obverse a representa- 
tion of St. Mark blessing the banner of the republic held 
by the doge kneeling, and on the reverse a figure of Christ. 
This citie of Ragusa paieth tribute to the Turke yerely 
fourteene thousand Sechinos, and euery Seehino is of Vene- 
tian money eight liuers and two soldes. 
Hakhiyt's Voyages, II. 102. 
Sequoia (se-kwoi'a), n. [NL. (Endlicher, 1847), 
named from Sequoiah, Sequo Yah (also called 
George Guess), an Indian of the Cherokee tribe, 
who invented an alphabet and taught it to his 
tribe.] A genus of coniferous trees, of the tribe 
Abietinese and subtribe Taxodinse. It is character- 
ized by an oval cone, with persistent woody scales each 
bearing about five ovules, and dilated upward in fruit into 
a rhomboidal wrinkled and flattened slightly prickle-tip- 
sequestration. Hence 3. To seize for any pur- g ods and ^ chat i e jLLt ^TJvf A Jff ir, 
pose; confiscate; take possession of; appro- wn on 
priate. 
into the hands of Philip Burlamachy. " and seize the goods of the person against whom 
Blackstone, Com., I. viil. it is directed. It might be issued against a defendant 
The liberties of New York were thus sequestered by a who is in contempt by reason of neglect or refusal to 
monarch who desired to imitate the despotism of France, appear or answer or to obey a decree of court, (<7) The 
Bancroft, Hist. U. S., II. 415. ae t o f taking property from the owner for a 
II. intrans. If. To withdraw. 
time till the rents, issues, and profits satisfy 
ne of the Big Trees (Sequoia gig< 
Calif. 
itea), Mariposa Grove. 
( Diameter, 30 feet.) 
