Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 52
Septuagenary (a.) Consisting of seventy;
also, seventy years old.
Septuagenary (n.) A septuagenarian.
Septuagesima (n.) The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.
Septuagesimal (a.) Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies.
Septuagint (n.) 七十人編譯的聖經 A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.
Note: The causes which produced it [the Septuagint], the number and names of the translators, the times at which different portions were translated, are all uncertain. The only point in which all agree is that Alexandria was the birthplace of the version. On one other point there is a near agreement, namely, as to time, that the version was made, or at least commenced, in the time of the early Ptolemies, in the first half of the third century b.c. -- Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)
{Septuagint chronology}, The chronology founded upon the dates of the Septuagint, which makes 1500 years more from the creation to Abraham than the Hebrew Bible.
Septuagint (n.) The oldest Greek version of the Old Testament; said to have been translated from the Hebrew by Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II.
Septuagint (n.) See {Versions}.
Septuary (n.) Something composed of seven; a week.
Septulate (a.) Having imperfect or spurious septa.
Septula (n. pl. ) of Septulum
Septulum (n.) A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.
Septa (n. pl. ) of Septum
Septum (n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.
Septum (n.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
Septum (n.) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
Septum (n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.
Septum (n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
Septuor (n.) A septet.
Septuple (a.) Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.
Septupled (imp. & p. p.) of Septuple
Septupling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Septuple
Septuple (v. t.) To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.
Sepulcher (n.) Alt. of Sepulchre
Sepulchre (n.) The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.
Sepulchered (imp. & p. p.) of Sepulchre
Sepulchred () of Sepulchre
Sepulchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sepulchre
Sepulchring () of Sepulchre
Sepulcher (v. t.) Alt. of Sepulchre
Sepulchre (v. t.) To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
Sepulchral (a.) Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.
Sepulchral (a.) Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.
Sepulture (n.) The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.
Sepulture (n.) A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.
Sequacious (a.) Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.
Sequacious (a.) Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable.
Sequacious (a.) Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.
Sequaciousness (n.) Quality of being sequacious.
Sequacity (n.) Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.
Sequel (n.) That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.
Sequel (n.) Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.
Sequel (n.) Conclusion; inference.
Sequelae (n. pl. ) of Sequela
Sequela (n.) One who, or that which, follows.
Sequela (n.) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.
Sequela (n.) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.
Sequela (n.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.
Sequence (n.) 連續；接續；一連串 [C] [（+of）]；次序；順序；先後 [U]；相關聯的一組；（同一主題的）組詩 [C] The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession? -- Shak.
Sequence and series of the seasons of the year. -- Bacon.
Sequence (n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment. -- Bp. Hall.
Sequence (n.) (Philos.) 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.
Sequence (n.) (Mus.) 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.
Sequence (n.) (Mus.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
Sequence (n.) (R.C.Ch.) 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. -- Bp. Fitzpatrick.
Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose. -- Shipley.
Sequence (n.) (Card Playing) (Whist) 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.
Sequence (n.) (Card Playing) (Poker) 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 flush.
Sequence (n.) The specific order of any linear arrangement of items; as, the sequence of amino acid residues in a protein; the sequence of instructions in a computer program; the sequence of acts in a variety show.
Sequence (v. t.) (Biochem.) To determine the sequence of; as, to sequence a protein or a DNA fragment.
Sequence (n.) Serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA".
Sequence (n.) A following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" [syn: sequence, chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession].
Sequence (n.) Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie [syn: sequence, episode].
Sequence (n.) The action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence" [syn: succession, sequence].
Sequence (n.) Several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys.
Sequence (v.) Arrange in a sequence.
Sequence (v.) Determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the human genome".
Sequent (a.) 連續的；繼起的；其次的；作為結果而產生的 Following; succeeding; in continuance.
Sequent (a.) Following as an effect; consequent.
Sequent (n.) A follower.
Compare: Follower
Follower (n.) [C] 追隨者；信徒；擁護者；侍從，部下；跟蹤者 A person who supports and admires a particular person or set of ideas.
‘Followers of Nietzsche.’
Follower (n.) A person who takes an active interest in a particular activity.
‘He is a keen follower of football.’
Follower (n.) Someone who is tracking a particular person, group, organization, etc. on a social media website or application.
‘She remains an immensely divisive figure, but she has a million followers on Facebook.’
Follower (n.) A person who moves or travels behind someone or something.
Sequent (n.) 收場；結果；相繼發生的事 That which follows as a result; a sequence.
Sequential (a.) Succeeding or following in order.
Sequestered (imp. & p. p.) of Sequester
Sequestering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sequester
Sequester (v. t.) (Law) 使隔離；使隱退；【律】扣押（債務人的財產）；把（有爭議的財產）交第三者保管；沒收 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.
Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. -- Blackstone.
Sequester (v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him. -- South.
Sequester (v. t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss. -- Bacon.
Sequester (v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
When men most sequester themselves from action. -- Hooker.
A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation. -- Bacon.
Sequester (v. i.) To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. -- Milton.
Sequester (v. i.) (Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Sequester (n.) Sequestration; separation. [R.]
Sequester (n.) (Law) 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. -- Bouvier.
Sequester (n.) (Med.) Same as {Sequestrum}.
Sequester (v.) Requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered".
Sequester (v.) Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork" [syn: {impound}, {attach}, {sequester}, {confiscate}, {seize}].
Sequester (v.) Undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered".
Sequester (v.) Keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: {seclude}, {sequester}, {sequestrate}, {withdraw}].
Sequester (v.) Set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" [syn: {sequester}, {sequestrate}, {keep apart}, {set apart}, {isolate}].
Sequestered (a.) Retired; secluded.
Sequestrable (a.) Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.
Sequestral (a.) Of or pertaining to a sequestrum.
Sequestrated (imp. & p. p.) of Sequestrate
Sequestrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sequestrate
Sequestrate (v. t.) To sequester.
Seguestration (n.) (Civil & Com. Law) （財產的）扣押，沒收，接收；隔離 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 (n.) (Chancery) 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.) (Eccl. Law) 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.) (Internet. Law) 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.) The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . .This loathsome sequestration have I had. -- Shak.
Seguestration (n.) Disunion; disjunction. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
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Seguestration (n.) The act of segregating or sequestering; "sequestration of the jury" [syn: {segregation}, {sequestration}] [ant: {desegregation}, {integrating}, {integration}].
Seguestration (n.) The action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions.
Seguestration (n.) A writ that authorizes the seizure of property.
Seguestration (n.) Seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized [syn: {sequestration}, {requisition}].
Seguestration (n.), Chancery practice. The process of sequestration is a writ of commission, sometimes directed to the sheriff, but most usually, to four or more commissioners of the complainant's own nomination, authorizing them to enter upon the real or personal estate of the defendant, and to take the rents, issues and profits into their own hands, and keep possession of, or pay the same as the court shall order and direct, until the party who is in contempt shall do that which he is enjoined to do, and which is specially mentioned in the writ. 1 Harr. Ch. 191; Newl. Ch. Pr. 18; Blake's Ch. Pr. 103.
Seguestration (n.) Upon the return of non est inventus to a commission of rebellion, a sergeant-at-arms may be moved for; and if he certifies that the defendant cannot be taken, a motion may be made upon his certificate, for an order for a sequestration. 2 Madd. Chan. 203; Newl. Ch. Pr. 18; Blake's Ch. Pr. 103.
Seguestration (n.) Under a sequestration upon mesne process, as in respect of a contempt for want of appearance or answer, the sequestrators may take possession of the party's personal property and keep him out of possession; but no sale can take place, unless perhaps to pay expenses; for this process is only to form the foundation of taking the bill pro confesso. After a decree it may be sold. See 3 Bro. C. C. 72; 2 Cox, 224; 1 Ves. jr. 86; 3 Bro. C. C. 372; 2 Madd. Ch. Pr. 206. See, generally, as to this species of sequestration, 19 Vin. Abr. 325; Bac. Ab. h.t.; Com.; Chancery, D 7, Y 4; 1 Hov. Supp. to Ves. jr. 25 to 29; 1 Vern. by Raith. 58, note 1; Id. 421, note 1.
Seguestration (n.), Contracts. A species of deposit, which two or more persons, engaged in litigation about anything, make of the thing in contest to an indifferent person, who binds himself to restore it when the issue is decided, to the party to whom it is adjudged to belong. Louis. Code, art. 2942; Story on Bailm: Sec. 45. Vide 19 Vin. Ab. 325; 1 Supp. to Yes. jr. 29; 1 Vern. 58, 420; 2 Ves. jr. 23; Bac. Ab. h.t. 2. This is called a conventional sequestration, to distinguish it from a judicial sequestration, which is considered in the preceding article. Sec Dalloz, Dict. mot Sequestre.
Seguestration (n.), Louisiana practice. The Code of Practice in civil cases in Louisiana, defines and makes the following provisions on the subject of sequestration. Art. 269. Sequestration is a mandate of the court, ordering the sheriff, in certain cases, to take in his possession, and to keep a thing of which another person has the possession, until after the decision of a suit, in order that it be delivered to him who shall be adjudged entitled to have the property or possession of that thing. This is what is properly called a judicial sequestration. Vide 1 Mart. R. 79; 1 L. R. 439; Civil Code of Lo. 2941; 2948.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 270. In this acceptation, the word sequestration does not mean a judicial deposit, because sequestration may exist together with the right of administration, while mere deposit does not admit it.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 271. All species of property, real or personal, as well as the revenue proceeding from the same, may be sequestered.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 272. Obligations and titles may also be sequestered, when their ownership is in dispute.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 273. Judicial sequestration is generally ordered only at the request of one of the parties to a suit; there are cases, nevertheless, where it is decreed by the court without such request, or is the consequence of the execution of judgments.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 274. The court may order, ex officio, the sequestration of real property in suits, where the ownership of such property is in dispute and when one of the contending parties does not seem to have a more apparent right to the possession than the other. In such cases, sequestration may be ordered to continue, until the question of ownership shall have been decided.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 275. Sequestration may be ordered at the request of one of the parties in a suit in the following cases: 1. When one who had possessed for more than one year, has been evicted through violence, and sues to be restored to his possession. 2. When one sues for the possession of movable property, or of a slave, and fears that the party having possession, may ill treat the slave or send either that slave, or the property in dispute, out of the jurisdiction of the court, during the pendency of the suit. 3. When one claims the ownership, or the possession of real property, and has good ground to apprehend, that the defendant may make use of his possession to dilapidate or to waste the fruits or revenues produced by such property, or convert them to his own use. 4. When a woman sues for a separation from bed and board, or only for a separation of property from her husband, and has reason to apprehend that he will ruin her dotal property, or waste the fruits or revenues produced by the same during the pendency of the action. 5. When one has petitioned for a stay of proceedings, and a meeting of his creditors, and such creditors fear that he may avail himself of such stay of proceedings, to place the whole, or a part of his property, out of their reach. 6. A creditor by special mortgage shall have the power of sequestering the mortgaged property, when he apprehends that it will be removed out of the state before he can have the benefit of his mortgage, and will make oath of the facts which induced his apprehension.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 276. A plaintiff wishing to obtain an order of sequestration in any one of the cases above provided, must annex to the petition in which he prays for such an order, an affidavit, setting forth the cause for which he claims such order, he must besides, execute his obligation in favor of the defendant, for such sum as the court shall determine, with the surety of one good and solvent person, residing within the jurisdiction of the court, to be responsible for such damages as the defendant may sustain, in case such sequestration should have been wrongfully obtained.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 277. When security is given in order to obtain the sequestration of real property which brings a revenue, the judge must require that it be given for an amount sufficient to compensate the defendant, not only for all damage which he may sustain, but also for the privation of such revenue, during the pendency of the action.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 278. The plaintiff when he prays for a sequestration of the property of one who has failed, is not required to give such security, though that property bring in a revenue.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 279. A defendant against whom a mandate of sequestration has been obtained, except in cases of failure, may have the same set aside, by executing his obligation in favor of the sheriff, with one good and solvent surety, for whatever amount the judge may determine, as being equal to the value of the property to be left in his possession.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 280. The security thus given by the defendant, when the property sequestrated consists in movables or in slaves, shall be responsible that he shall not send away the same out of the jurisdiction of the court; that he shall not make an improper use of them; and that he will faithfully present them, after definitive judgment, in case he should be decreed to restore the same to the plaintiff.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 281. As regards landed property, this security is given to prevent the defendant, while in possession, from wasting the property, and for the faithful restitution of the fruits that he may have received since the demand, or of their value in the event of his being cast in the suit.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 282. When the sheriff has sequestered property pursuant to an order of the court, he shall, after serving the petition and the copy of the order of sequestration on the defendant, send him return in writing to the clerk of the court which gave the order, stating in the same in what manner the order was executed, and annex to such return a true and minute inventory of the property sequestered, drawn by him, in the presence of two witnesses.
Seguestration (n.) -Art. 283. The sheriff, while he retains possession of sequestered property, is bound to take proper care of the same and to administer the same, if it be of such nature as to admit of it, as a prudent father of a family administers his own affairs. He may confide them to the care of guardians or overseers, for whose acts he remains responsible, and he will be entitled to receive a just compensation for his administration, to be determined by the court, to be paid to him out of the proceeds of the property sequestered, if judgment be given in favor of the plaintiff.
Sequestrator (n.) (Law) 查封人；沒收者 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.) (Law) One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
Sequestrator (n.). One to whom a sequestration is made.
Sequestrator (n.) A depositary of this kind cannot exonerate himself from the care of the thing sequestered in his hands, unless for some cause rendering it indispensable that he should resign his trust. Louis. Code, art. 2947. See Stakeholder. Sequestrators are also officers appointed by a court of chancery, and named in a writ of sequestration. As to their powers and duties, see 2 Madd. Ch. Pr. 205, 6; Blake's Ch. Pr. 103; Newl. Ch. Pr. 18, 19; 1 Harr. Ch. 191.
Sequestra (n. pl. ) of Sequestrum
Sequestrum (n.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
Sequin (n.) 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.) 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.) A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California "big tree" (Sequoia gigantea).
Seraglio (n.) An inclosure; a place of separation.
Seraglio (n.) 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.) A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.
Serai (n.) A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.
Seralbumen (n.) Serum albumin.
Serang (n.) The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.
Serape (n.) A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.
Seraphs (n. pl. ) of Seraph
Seraphim (n. pl. ) of Seraph
Seraph (n.) 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.) Alt. of Seraphical
Seraphical (a.) Of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined.