1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 422 He sought them both, but wish'd his hap might find Eve separate . View more context for this quotation

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. iv. 35 'Twere hard to conceive an eternal Watch, whose pieces were never separate one from another, nor ever in any other form.

1729 G. Adams tr. Sophocles Oedipus Coloneus v. iv, in tr. Sophocles Trag. II. 162 He died without Sepulchre, separate from any Man.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 80 Stamens and Pistils are said to be separate when they are found upon the same plant, but in different flowers.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. x. 237 The moment in which I detect the least sign of treachery, thy head and body are three yards separate.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ix. 285 The footsteps..appeared to have some object quite separate and disconnected from herself.

1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 29 Phosphorus..is never met with in a separate state, but always in combination with some other element.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxiii. 120 A friendship..Which masters Time indeed, and is Eternal, separate from fears.

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times ii. 41 Small separate plates of ice are formed.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 166 This castle..being separate from concourse of people, and a solitarie place fitte for a man to studie in.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 24 The Women..are all lodged in a separate appartment together.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 390 Now in a secret Vale, the Trojan sees A sep'rate Grove.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xix. 358 See, here's the plan of my Bungalow, with all convenience for being separate and sulky when I please.

1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. ii. 91 Conduct these culprits each to separate cells.

1849 Edinb. Rev. July 11 The tendency of prolonged separate confinement is to affect the mind.

1863 Rep. Sel. Comm. Gaols 13 Prisons..upon the separate system.

1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) iii. xiv. §1 130 Separate Souls being ἰσάγγελοι, in a condition not unlike the Angels themselves.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. i. 41 Whatever Ideas the Mind can receive, and contemplate without the help of the Body, it is reasonable to conclude, it can retain without the help of the Body too, or else the Soul, or any separate Spirit, will have but little advantage by thinking.

1680 E. Stillingfleet Mischief of Separation 32 Nothing doth more alienate mens affections, than withdrawing from each other into separate Congregations.

1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 914 A Church that is separate from the Church Catholick.

1691 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 62 He..was the sole industrious moover, that it might be made a separate Parish.

1724 D. Waterland Farther Vindic. Christ's Divinity ii. 58 The prevailing Custom of Speech, which never gives the Name of Substances to any thing, but where the Substance is separate, or separable.

1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. viii. 194 He proceeded to enroll the troops into separate bodies.

1861 Two Cosmos II. v. iv. 156 He had ready for publication an Essay on the separate existence of Matter.

1887 F. B. Zincke Some Materials Hist. Wherstead 188 If it is regarded disconnectedly and as a separate entity, it teaches little.

1673 W. Temple Let. to Duke Ormond in Wks. (1757) II. 235 This point can only be gained by a separate peace between us and Holland; for if the war should come to end in a general treaty [etc.].

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Separate, distinct, particular, different.

1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 86 Have not those two Realms their separate Maxims of Policy, which must operate in Times of Peace?

1756 F. Brooke et al. Old Maid 15, 86 I have proposed separate beds, but that he will never hear of.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lix. 268 That each of them should act his separate part, with honour and integrity to the public.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxiv. 111 ‘Kind host,’ he said, ‘our needs require A separate board and separate fire.’

1817 J. Austen Let. 20 Feb. (1995) 330 I w^d recommend to her & M^r D. the simple regimen of separate rooms.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. xiv. 341 Each pressed forward upon his separate object.

1838 H. Martineau Retrospect of Western Trav. I. 236 We..had..a separate table, at Mrs. Peyton's boarding-house.

1840 T. De Quincey Style: No. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 514/2 One poem, which..has a characteristic or separate beauty of its own.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xiii. 84 A married woman, although having separate estate, and living apart from her husband.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 3 Luther and Calvin in their separate ways brought into splendid prominence their new ideas of moral order.

1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide 1008 (advt.) White Lion... Coffee Room (separate tables), Billiard Room.

1971 J. Fleming Grim Death xi. 161 A Private Hotel on the sea-front where they had dinner at night and separate tables.

1977 C. Storr Tales from Psychiatrist's Couch iv. 36 She sleeps in a twin bed in London, but in the cottage we have separate rooms.

1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Ess. ⁋19 While the great body [of the empire], as a whole, was torpid and passive, every separate member began..to move with an energy all its own.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xvi. 263 Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-beam of God's care and pity, for every separate need.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 716 The metamorphoses of material proceed pari passu with the growth of the separate parts.

1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 161 Three separate baths of this strength.

1776 T. Jefferson in Dunlop's Pennsylvania Packet 8 July 1/1 When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People..to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them.

1890 Louisiana Acts CXI. 152 An Act..requiring all railway companies..to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.]

1892 F. W. Gage Negro Probl. in U.S. iii. 92 If railroad companies care to furnish separate but equal accommodations on equal terms to each race, no objection need be made.

1915 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 235 160 It was not an infraction of the Fourteenth Amendment for a State to require separate, but equal, accommodations for the two races.

1948 Time 9 Feb. 75/1 In Missouri, where a ‘separate but equal’ law school has had its longest test.

1954 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 347 495 We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.

1852 Dundas Warden (Canada West) 28 May 2/7 The law makes provision for Separate Schools, to meet an exigency—namely, the anticipated intrusion of the religious dogmas of a majority upon a minority.

1857 H. F. Douglass in Ontario Hist. (1963) June 88 Separate schools and churches are nuisances that should be abated as soon as possible, they are dark and hateful relics of Yankee Negrophobia.

1872 Canadian Monthly July 64/1 The Roman Catholics spoke frankly and sincerely for their separate schools, the New Brunswickers for their local liberties.

1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 14 Apr. 5/2 Steps are being taken by the Roman Catholic authorities towards the establishment of separate schools in and near Vancouver.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 30/2 (advt.) Convenient to public, junior high and separate schools.

1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Jan. 29/8 That meant I was Roman Catholic,..that my oppressed and persecuted parents had to pay for my separate school education as well as the education of all the heathens in the public schools.

1955 Summary Rep. Comm. Socio-Econ. Devel. Bantu Areas S. Afr. iii. xxv. 105/1 (heading) Objections to the policy of separate development.

1962 Listener 5 Apr. 606/2 The success of apartheid or parallelism or separate development—call it what you will—is dependent on educating the Bantu to take over all their responsibilities themselves.

1968 Economist 12 Oct. 17/1 A rigid, and openly acknowledged, form of ‘separate development’ operates there [i.e. in Londonderry]. The most populous ward..is wholly Catholic..but skilful use of the ‘property qualification’ for local government elections [etc.]..ensure that these 12 councillors are Protestant Unionists.

1977 Time 21 Nov. 12/1 What is at stake, ultimately, is whether the government will be able to carry on with the Afrikaners' grand scheme of apartheid—also known as ‘separate development’ and more recently as ‘plural democracy’.

1979 E. Norman Christianity & World Order v. 61 The Dutch Reformed Church does not teach white racial superiority, nor is Separate Development an attempt to institutionalize racial discrimination.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 249 [They] supposede that God wolde separate theyme that he myȝhte subiecte theym diuidede the rather to hym.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. viii. 35 Who shall seperate vs from goddes love?

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 44 And surelie the distance betwixt London and Lysbon, should not stoppe, any kinde of frendlie dewtie..if the greatest matter of all did not in certeyne pointes, separate our myndes.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 54 Life and these lips haue long bene separated . View more context for this quotation

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ix. 18 The dragon wing of night orespreds the earth, And stickler-like the armies separates . View more context for this quotation

1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 90 Naturall death doth but separate the bodie from the soule: But spirituall death separates the soule from God.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 970 Rather then Death..Shall separate us, linkt in Love so deare. View more context for this quotation

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 279 Separate the wires and the effect ceases.

1839 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 91 Being thus separated from my attendants, I lost my way.

1874 J. Parker Paraclete i. x. 158 What separates nation from nation so completely as ignorance of each other's speech?

1962 H. O. Beecheno Introd. Business Stud. xi. 93 For the mass of smaller businesses these functions must be separated out.

1980 V. Cunningham Spanish Civil War Verse 64 The various elements of his poetry can't be separated out like this.

1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. xlij They..have separated them selves from the laye men, countinge them viler then dogges.

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. M.i He ought to worke the matter wisely in seperating himself from the multitude.

a1600 R. Hooker Two Serm. (1614) 17 Men do separate themselues either by heresie, schisme, or apostasie.

1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. ii. 9 If one part of the Universall Church do separate it self from another part,..not as it is a part of the Universal Church, but only so far as it is corrupted and degenerated.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 173 To the Anglican Church he had always been strongly attached, and had repeatedly, where her interests were concerned, separated himself with regret from his dearest friends.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxx. 182 The good of the Soveraign and People, cannot be separated.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §315 When the elevation of the object becomes too small to be discerned, as separated from the luminous reflection.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. vi. 143 In modern history it seems to me always impossible to separate religion from politics.

1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire iii. 35 Men had not yet learned to satisfy their consciences by separating the person from the office.

1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 12 It is as great a mistake..for the theologian to separate off the ship from the passengers as for the naturalist to separate off the passengers from the ship.

1859 R. Thornton Jrnl. 25 June in E. C. Tabler Zambezi Papers of Richard Thornton (1963) I. 103 About 3 p.m. Dr. L. gave me an official letter separating me from the Expedition.

1888 Civil Service (U.S.) Comm. 4th Rep. 51 A statement of the number of persons who have been ‘separated’ from the classified service by removal, resignation, and death cannot be made.

1946 Britannica Bk. of Year 833/1 Separate, to discharge or release from active duty in the armed services.

1971 Reader's Digest (U.S. ed.) Oct. 13/1 This year one million veterans will be separated from the service.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xiii. 2 Seperat me Barnabas and Saul for the worke where vnto I have called them.

1611 Bible (King James) Rom. i. 1 Paul..separated vnto the Gospel of God. View more context for this quotation

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 9 Who separated the Gentile and rejected the Iew?

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes i. 12 Whoever of the ancient Patriarchs first separated a Tenth.

1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. (1818) II. v. vii. 92 Every trespass upon that reserve which public decency has established breaks down the fence by which the day is separated to the service of religion.

1798 M. Cutler in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 11 You are now, Sir, vested with power to ordain and separate others to the work of the ministry.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 Lastly, who shall forbid and separat all idle resort, all evill company?

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 147 The Tinne and Leade is mingled with Silver, but so, as it doth not largely quit the cost of the labour in seperating or trying it.

1683 W. Soames tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Art of Poetry iv. 67 From the fine Gold I separate th' Allay.

1784 E. Cullen tr. T. Bergman Physical & Chem. Ess. I. 221 The selenite may be still better separated from the iron, by boiling the dried residuum [etc.].

1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 210 It is in the furnace that the dross is separated.

1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xix. 163 Plants..are able slowly to separate out and assimilate the potash from these rocks and soils.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 33 There being Glandules on purpose to separate a humor for that purpose.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 206 Furnished with glands, which separate a substance that has the smell of musk.

1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 286 Cheltenham water, when fresh drawn, appears tolerably clear... It becomes more turbid by standing, and separates air bubbles in a small quantity.

1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. ii. v. §39 When there was not room enough..for their Herds to feed together, they, by consent,..separated, and inlarged their pasture.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. iv. 125 They separated at an early hour.

1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough xix The conversation held between the latter and Mr. Sawyer..before separating for the night.

1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean (1910) II. xx. 86 It was time for the company to separate.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 332 The differences that happen between man and wife..and the Reasons that move 'em to separate.

1794 Ann. Reg., Chron. *11 The parties had separated the 24th of July, 1793, and no evidence had been produced to affect his client, but cohabitation since the separation.

1819 Ann. Reg., Chron. (1820) 252 Is the prisoner your husband?.. Yes. I believe you separated from him for some time?—Yes.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 219 The bridge..has a plain and easie passage over 30 long boats, concatenated and made to separate at pleasure.

1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. Introd. 43 The Bullet makes an Eschar, which usually separates in a few days.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 390 Swammerdam..was of opinion that the bones themselves separated from each other, and closed again.

1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 222 The gangrene was separating.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 549 The mortified parts separated, without assistance, from the sound parts.

1832 John Bull 13 Feb. 56/1 The roof of the nave has separated in one place from the wall.

1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 406 The salt separates in minute needles.

1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xix. 198 On cooling, potassium nitrate separates out in crystals.