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Webster 1913 Edition


Dissever

Dis-sev′er

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dissevered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dissevering
.]
[OE.
dessevrer
; pref.
des-
(L.
dis-
) +
sevrer
to sever, F.
sevrer
to wean, L.
separate
to separate. In this word the prefix is intensive. See
Dis-
, and
Sever
.]
To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.
The storm so
dissevered
the company . . . that most of therm never met again.
Sir P. Sidney.
States
disserved
, discordant, belligerent.
D. Webster.

Dis-sev′er

,
Verb.
I.
To part; to separate.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dissever

DISSEVER

,
Verb.
T.
[dis and sever. In this word, dis, as in dispart, can have no effect, unless to augment the signification, as dis and sever both denote separation.] To dispart; to part in two; to divide asunder; to separate; to disunite, either by violence or not. When with force, it is equivalent to rend and burst. It may denote either to cut or to tear asunder. In beheading, the head is dissevered from the body. The lightning may dissever a branch from the stem of a tree. Jealousy dissevers the bonds of friendship. The reformation dissevered the Catholic church; it dissevered Protestants from catholics.

Definition 2024


dissever

dissever

English

Verb

dissever (third-person singular simple present dissevers, present participle dissevering, simple past and past participle dissevered)

  1. To separate; to split apart.
    • Sir Philip Sidney
      The storm so dissevered the company [] that most of them never met again.
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.16:
      Philosophers, Socrates continues, try to dissever the soul from communion with the body, whereas other people think that life is not worth living for a man who has ‘no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure’.
  2. To divide into separate parts.
    If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.

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