Verb

(obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.xii:

Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait

* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 2

Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.

* Miss Yonge

The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.

To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

* Paley

The shoulder blade is attached only to the muscles.

* Macaulay

a huge stone to which the cable was attached

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To adhere; to be attached.

* Brougham

The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

Dower will attach .

(Cooley)

To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to .

attached''' to a friend; '''attaching others to us by wealth or flattery

* Jane Austen

incapable of attaching a sensible man

* Cowper

God by various ties attaches man to man.

To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to .

to attach great importance to a particular circumstance

* Bayard Taylor

To this treasure a curse is attached .

(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

(Shakespeare)

Verb

(en verb)

To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.

The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.

* Hooker

when men most sequester themselves from action

To separate in order to store.

The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.

To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.

* Francis Bacon

I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.

(chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound

(legal) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.

To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.

* South

It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.

(transitive, US, politics, legal) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.

The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.

To seize and hold enemy property.

To withdraw; to retire.

* Milton

to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics

To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.