释义 |
severed, ppl. a.|ˈsɛvəd| [f. sever v. + -ed1.] In senses of the verb.
1581Howell Devises L iiij, Then eche a seuerde peece doth spoyle, Which late conioynde, no force could foyle. 1588T. Hughes Misfort. Arthur iii. i. 107 How close the seuered skinne vnites againe. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 170 Our seuer'd Nauie too Haue knit againe. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. i. (1626) 6 Part of his seuer'd scarce-dead lims he boyles. 1634Milton Comus 274 How to regain my sever'd company. a1635Sibbes Confer. Christ & Mary (1656) 49 We must not think of the ascension of Christ as a severed thing from us. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. iv. 746 Take, running river, take these locks of mine..This severed hair. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. iv. i, The executioner lifted the severed head. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxiii. 352 We have, in the case of ice, the actual regelation of the severed surfaces. Hence ˈseveredly adv. rare—1.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. viii. §5. 35 But heere I must giue warning, that it bee done distinctly and seueredly. |