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separated, ppl. a.|ˈsɛpəreɪtɪd|
[f. separate v. + -ed1.]
1. In senses of the verb: Set apart or asunder, disjoined, withdrawn, etc. Also absol., esp. (orig. U.S.) in sense ‘one who has withdrawn from a conjugal relationship but is not divorced’ (chiefly pl.).
separated milk: milk from which the cream has been extracted by a separator.
1535Coverdale Ezek. xli. 13 The house..and the seperated buyldinge. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 23/2 If the separated partes can not with ease be brought together. 1605Shakes. Macb. ii. iii. 144 Our seperated fortune shall keepe vs both the safer. 1661Boyle Scept. Chem. iv. 255 The separated sulphurs or Chymical Oyles of things. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. v. (1677) 333 The Sect of the Sadduces..denied..the Existence of Angels or separated Intelligences. a1715Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 442 Every province is a separated state and has an entire sovereignty within itself. 1730Pope Let. to Gay 11 Sept., I can't but look upon myself..as a separated spirit too from Courts and courtly fopperies. 1869M. Pattison Serm. (1885) 174 The Protestant or other separated communions. 1901Scotsman 12 Apr. 5/4 To prevent the wholesale dilution of whole with separated milk. 1951N. Mitford Blessing ii. v. 192 It's always like that with separated couples... Each one is trying to give the child a better time than the other. 1975Observer (Colour Suppl.) 5 Jan. 7/2 Feiffer is 45, separated, has a daughter, lives in New York.
absol.1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. vii. Wks. 1709 III. i. 64 Widowhood..is much to be preferred before Separation; for the Separated are Savage Animals, uncapable of the prettiest Ties of Society. 1744Life & Adv. M. Bishop 216 In the Morning all the separated got together again, to receive Orders. 1960Time 17 Oct. 112/2 A collection of psychologizing short stories about young separateds. 1975Publishers Weekly 27 Jan. 234/3 Explores the bisexual lifestyle through in-depth interviews with marrieds, singles and ‘separateds’.
2. Math. (See quot. 1968.)
1956J. M. H. Olmstead Intermediate Analysis iii. 77 The set of rational numbers and the set of irrational numbers are disjoint, but are about as far from being separated as two disjoint sets of real numbers can be. 1964T. O. Moore Elem. Gen. Topology ii. 40 A space X is connected iff X is not the union of two separated sets. 1968E. T. Copson Metric Spaces v. 62 Two sets A and B in a metric space M are said to be separated if neither has a point in common with the closure of the other.
Hence ˈseparatedly adv. rare.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 417 So no spirit did at all subsist, separatedly, subsisting alone, out or beside the body. |