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dissevered, ppl. a.|dɪˈsɛvəd| [f. as prec. + -ed1.] Separated, disunited, divided.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. iv. in Ashm. (1652) 144 Of dysseveryd qualytes a Copulacyon. 1583Stanyhurst Aeneis ii. (Arb.) 64 If Gods eternal thee last disseuered offal Of Troy determyn too burne. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. iv. §10 They were a Nation apart and dissevered. 1795Coleridge Lines in Manner Spenser 12 With thoughts of my dissevered Fair ingrost. 1835Browning Paracelsus ii. Wks. (1889) 65 Are we not halves of one dissevered world? †b. Math. = discrete 2. Obs.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. viii. §2. 31 The one handling quantitie continued, and the other disevered. 1654Z. Coke Logick (1657) 29 Quantity is either continued, as greatnesse: dissevered, as number. |