单词 | sundered |
释义 | sunderedadj.n. 1. Split into pieces, esp. violently or destructively; broken up; severed.In quot. OE: (probably) divided into portions. ΚΠ OE Charter: Bp. Oswald to Eadric (Sawyer 1310) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 88 Æt Eanulfestune oþer healf hid & æt Uferan Strætforda on þære gesyndredan hide þone oþerne æcer. c1500 ( tr. J. Bradmore Philomena (Harl. 1736) in R. T. Beck Cutting Edge (1974) 118 (MED) Yff the nose be not kytt Awey but made a depe garse ther In, than ows [perhaps read owe] the sundryd partis ther of be..sewede togedyr. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. iii. i. i. f. lxxxiiii/1 After the vnition of the sondred partes by a conuenyent seame. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xii. 251 The wound was slight; But sunder'd nerues could not sustaine his flight. a1731 J. Hughes Misc. in Verse & Prose (1737) 6 Fires, supprest beneath, with Rage demand An upward Passage thro' the sunder'd Land. 1783 tr. Virgil Eclogue vii. 62 in New Transl. Virgil's Eclogues The sundered Realms, I'll bind, colleagu'd in Peace. 1835 Jrnl. House of Representatives Ohio 34 543 Deadly hostility—the certain consequences of which, are a sundered Union, and all the horrors of civil commotion. 1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold iii. i. 77 He..brought the sunder'd tree again, and set it Straight on the trunk. 1955 A. MacLean H.M.S. Ulysses xvii. 302 The wind and sundered oil tanks lashed the flames into an incalescent holocaust. 2016 What Papers Say (Russia) (Nexis) 23 Aug. Germany remains sundered even 27 years after the fall of the Berlin wall. 2. Separated; kept separate or apart. Also: scattered.In quot. c1230 as n.: a person who is separated. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > separate or separated sunderedc1230 ysondredc1380 discretea1398 divisec1420 dissevered1471 separate?a1475 separated1535 semoted1542 dissociate1548 dirempt1580 dissundered1580 severed1581 parted1595 dividual1598 twain1600 sejunct1602 disassociated1611 dissociated1611 dividenta1616 entire to itselfa1618 interstinct1623 disjected1647 segregant1647 severized1649 divided1658 separate1667 secrete1678 disaffiliated1839 dirempted1900 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] disperse1393 distract1398 scattereda1425 skailed1488 dispersed1526 dissipate1606 dissipated1610 straggled1641 disjected1647 respersed1649 disparpled1652 disseminated1662 shattered1687 sundered1796 decentralized1851 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 129 (MED) I..swifte weattres þe me mot ouerwaden..þe isundrede is iswipt forð & forfeareð eauer. a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Sonderen Pharisenes, That sundered men on englys menes. 1563 L. Humphrey Nobles or of Nobilitye Ep. Ded. sig. B.ivv That highe Ioue (to whome worthelye is ascribed the honoure, of fyrst assembling and vniting sondred multitudes). 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 53 Ample enterchange of sweet discourse, Which so long sundered [printed sundried; 1612 sundered] friends should dwel vpon. View more context for this quotation 1678 J. Dryden All for Love iv. 63 Set all the Earth, And all the Seas, betwixt your sunder'd Loves. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 473 The white bear, drifting on a field of ice, Howls to her sundered cubs. 1836 D. P. Brown Prophet of St Paul's v. iii. 47 Broken vows again are plighted. Sundered hearts once more united. 1915 Times 4 Dec. 11/3 There is a sense of adventure and high accomplishment about every canal that links two sundered steams. 2016 Telegraph (India) (Nexis) 20 May The two separate, ‘completed’ chunks stare at each other across the twisted crossing like sundered lovers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.OE |
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