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"text": "c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV\nIt was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him."
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"(law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Medicine"
],
"glosses": [
"A sequestrum."
],
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"sequestrum",
"sequestrum"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine) A sequestrum."
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɪˈkwɛs.tə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/səˈkwɛs.tə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sɪˈkwɛs.tɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/səˈkwɛs.tɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛstə(ɹ)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-sequester.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bb/En-us-sequester.ogg/En-us-sequester.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/En-us-sequester.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otdeljane",
"sense": "sequestration, separation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "отделяне"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izolirane",
"sense": "sequestration, separation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "изолиране"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sequestration, separation",
"word": "Abscheidung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sequestration, separation",
"word": "Abtrennung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sequestration, separation",
"word": "Absonderung"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "sequestration, separation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "areszt"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "sequestration, separation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sekwestr"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "sequestration, separation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sekwestracja"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person with whom two or more parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy",
"word": "Zwangsverwalter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person with whom two or more parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy",
"word": "Sequester"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a sequestrum",
"word": "Sequester"
}
],
"word": "sequester"
}
{
"called_from": "page/2517",
"msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'to withdraw; to retire', 2: 'withdraw', 3: 'retire'}",
"path": [
"sequester",
"trans-top-see"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "sequester",
"trace": ""
}
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