sequestrator
(ˈsiːkwɛstreɪtə(r))
[a. late L. sequestrātor, agent-n. f. L. sequestrāre: see sequestrate v.]
One who sequestrates; a trustee or bailiff having control of property upon which there are claims by creditors. Also, a person named in a writ of sequestration as authorized to collect and administer the income of a sequestrated estate.
| 1646 T. Edwards Gangrena i. 62 Sequestratours, Collectours, Receivers. a 1658 Cleveland Cl. Vind. (1677) 99 The Committee-man hath a Side-man, or rather a Setter, hight a Sequestrator... He is the States Cormorant. a 1689 A. Behn tr. Cowley's Plants vi. C.'s Wks. 1721 III. 453 The Warriour may a while his Spear forsake, But Sequestrators will no Respit take. 1712 Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4) 102 The..Church-wardens, or other Sequestrators, are to Account to him for..the Profits. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 188 The Puritan, a conqueror, a ruler, a persecutor, a sequestrator, had been detested. 1884 Cave in Law Times Rep. LI. 661/1 Persons who were named as sequestrators in a writ of sequestration against B. |
b. fig. One who sets apart, a separator.
| 1654 Whitlock Zootomia 381 Even that first and worst Sequestratour, that sequestred man from his God, and so from his Happinesse. |