Vocabulary : Sequence to Sequestrate
Sequence : The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement. ;; That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result. ;; Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences. ;; Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps. ;; A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia. ;; A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name. ;; Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight. ;; All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flusSequent : Following; succeeding; in continuance. ;; Following as an effect; consequent. ;; A follower. ;; That which follows as a result; a sequence.
Sequential : Succeeding or following in order.
Sequester : 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. ;; To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc. ;; To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. ;; To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively. ;; To withdraw; to retire. ;; To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband. ;; Sequestration; separation. ;; A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee. ;; Same as Sequestrum.
Sequestered : of Sequester ;; Retired; secluded.
