Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's house in order to evade the demands of creditors.
Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves.
At one moment she was absolutely indifferent to the observation of all the world, at another she would seclude herself from it for ever, and at a third could resist it with energy.
The choice of the plain of Kalawao as the spot on which to seclude the lepers from all the Islands was very happy.
Every possible precaution was taken to seclude the inmates of this harem in the most absolute manner from the outer world.
The Velamas retained the custom, but a further division has taken place on the subject, and one subcaste, called the Adi or original Velamas, do not seclude their women.
The higher clans seclude their women, and these when they go out must wear long clothes covering the head and reaching to the feet.
Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves.
Indeed I shall think it wicked, or at any rate weak, if you continue to seclude yourself.
It was not to be expected that the Whartons should seclude themselves because of her grief.
Women would be enigmas and mysteries and maternal dignitaries that one would approach in a state of emotional excitement and seclude piously when serious work was in hand.
We make all these distinctions between man and man, we exalt this and favour that, and degrade and seclude that; we make birth artificial, life artificial, death artificial.
They may become parents, and with most of them there is manifestly nothing to be done but to seclude them from the great body of the population.
No one complains if they seclude themselves at certain hours.
Was it not utterly alien to the spirit of Christ thus to seclude oneself in light and warmth, among sweet strains of music and holy pictures?
If one is thus endowed by nature, it seems such an easy thing to seclude oneself from life, and to find endless joy in sight and hearing and critical appreciation.
And after all, though we shelter our lives and seclude them as we may, we have all of us a heavy burden to bear.
It should be laid at the feet of their Divine Head, that He may seclude it from His people and render it innocuous.
If you choose to seclude your wife or allow her to seclude herself on account of a purely physiological condition, I will not allow Mrs. Rockharrt to go near her until she goes to return her call.
Seclude not yourselves in your churches and cloisters.
To ponder on themes foreign to my darling image, and to seclude myself from her society, at hours which had usually been spent with her, were difficult tasks.
You should not therefore understand any promises in the scriptures so, as if there were any conditions set down to seclude any from coming, who are willing to come.
Excommunicated persons are under the same obligation, yet the magistrate is not actually obliged to call such, but rather to seclude them.
We thought you were going to seclude yourself tonight," said Lebas, "and we were regretting it.
It is not enough for a man to sequester himself from people; he must seclude himself from himself.
I readily consented to seclude myself from Wieland's presence.
The attention that was paid to this subject did not seclude him for any long time from us, on whom time had no other effect than to augment our impatience in the absence of each other and of him.
The leper hospitals, both in Scotland and elsewhere, were intended merely as receptacles to seclude the infected, not as houses in which a cure of them was to be attempted.
But is it right for anyone to seclude himself so egoistically from all that is going on in the world?
Janina suffered all the more in her present condition because she was unable to seclude herself from other people as she used to do at Bukowiec after every quarrel with her father.
Not only was she secluded from her family and the community, but an attempt was made to seclude the world from her.
To seclude these persons from the rest of the world so that the dreaded spiritual danger shall neither reach them nor spread from them, is the object of the taboos which they have to observe.
Nair women in Malabar seclude themselves for three days at menstruation and prepare their food in separate pots and pans.
They had power to cognosce whom to admit into, and whom to seclude from the cities of refuge: so that if the king had commanded to take the life of an innocent man, they were not to deliver him, Josh.
