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Seguestration
n.
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The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary.
Seguestration
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A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court.
Seguestration
n.
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A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with.
Seguestration
n.
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The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy.
Seguestration
n.
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The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
Seguestration
n.
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Disunion; disjunction.
Sequestrator
n.
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One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits.
Sequestrator
n.
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One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
Sequestra
pl.
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of Sequestrum
Sequestrum
n.
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A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
Sequin
n.
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An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value.
Sequoia
n.
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A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. S. gigantea, the "big tree" of California, and S. sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.
Sequoiene
n.
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A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California "big tree" (Sequoia gigantea).
Seraglio
n.
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An inclosure; a place of separation.
Seraglio
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The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.
Seraglio
n.
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A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.
Serai
n.
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A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.
Seralbumen
n.
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Serum albumin.
Serang
n.
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The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.
Serape
n.
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A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.
Seraphs
pl.
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of Seraph
Seraphim
pl.
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of Seraph
Seraph
n.
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One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.
Seraphic
a.
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Alt. of Seraphical
Seraphical
a.
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Of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined.
Seraphicism
n.
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The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness.
Seraphim
n.
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The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.
Seraphina
n.
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A seraphine.
Seraphine
n.
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A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
Serapis
n.
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An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.