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Sententiary
- - One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine.
Sententious
- adjective - abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
- concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
Septembrist
- - An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.
Septenaries
- noun - the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
Septentrion
- - The north or northern regions.
Sequenators
- noun - (chemistry) an apparatus that can determine the sequence of monomers in a polymer
Sequestered
- verb - Hidden away
- keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"
- kept separate and secluded; "a sequestered jury"
- providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"
- requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"
- set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
- 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"
- undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"
Sequestrate
- verb - keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"
- set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
- take legal possession of (assets) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met.