Middle English Dictionary Entry
sē̆questre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sē̆questre n. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
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Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.96 : No man ne legge in lond ne in tenement by-fore y-seyd, þe whyle þe sequestre ys þare set.
- c1425 Wycl.Antichr.(2) (Dub 245)p.cxxv : Take we heede to þe popes & cardinals boþe, to bishopis, to colectors, to suffriganes, also delegates & commyssaries & archedeekenes also & dekenes & officials & sequestris.
b
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)93 : By the same proces and the same execucioun doon and used to make the distresse and the sequestre in ech plee hangyng aforn the ballives by wed and borugh as the plees that hangyn by writ.