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▪ I. dissever, v.|dɪˈsɛvə(r)|
Forms: 3–5 desevir, 3–6 desever, 5 desevyr, deceuer; 4– dissever (4–5 dess-, 4–6 disc-, 5–6 dysc-, dyss-, 4–5 -evir, 5–6 -evyr, 6 -iver, -ivir, -yfer).
[a. AF. deseverer, desceverer, OF. dessevrer, desevrer (disseverer) (10th c. in Godef.), mod.F. (techn.) desseuvrer:—L. dissēparāre, f. dis- 1, 5 + sēparāre to separate.]
1. trans. To separate (a person or thing from another or from a body, two or more things from each other); to divide, disjoin, sever, part, disunite.
c1250Old Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 31 Þurch scab nis nacht man and wyman deseuird fram mannes felarede. 1382Wyclif 1 Chron. xxv. 1 [Thei] deseuereden than in to the servyce the sonys of Asaph. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxiii. 149 Pissemyres..disseuerez þe fyne gold fra þe vnfyne. c1450Mirour Saluacion 2554 When thai his body and sawle with the crosse disseueryd. 1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 31 heading, Disseueringe the bishoprick of Chester..from the iurisdiction of Canturbury. 1550Coverdale Spir. Perle vii. Wks. 1844 I. 117 The kernel lieth mixed among the chaff, and afterwards are they dissevered asunder with the fan or windle. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 388 Disseuer your vnited strengths. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. i. 6 A Stone cut out without hands, no man with Axe or Gavelock dissevering it. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. v. 224 Mankind must of necessity..be dissevered and disjoined from its Good. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock iii. 153 The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head for ever and for ever! 1827Lytton Pelham lvii, The difference in our politics had of late much dissevered us. 1877Farrar Days of Youth xix. 179, I have dissevered them from their context.
2. To divide into parts.
c1400Destr. Troy 1602 Thurgh myddis þe..toune meuyt a water, And disseuert þe Cite. 1417Searchers Verdicts in Surtees Misc. (1890) 11 Chosen be the assent of partys for to dissevir a grounde of a tenement..betwix the Dene and Chipitre..of the ta party, and the Maistre and Freres..on the other party. 1571Digges Pantom. ii. xxi. P j a, The..Pollygonium, which you shall diuide by the number of partes, whervnto ye would disseuer it. a1845Hood Public Dinner ii, A goose that is oldish—At carving not clever—You're begged to dissever. 1854J. Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sc. Chem. 3 This mass may be dissevered into smaller parts.
†b. To break up, dissolve or disperse (a combination). Obs.
1393Gower Conf. I. 234 He that thoughte to dissever The compaignie of hem for ever. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 66 The very name of Crumwell was able to dissever insurrections.
3. a. refl. To separate, part from each; † to divide or disperse themselves.
c1470Henry Wallace viii. 757 A thousand archaris..Disseueryt thaim amang the iiij party. 1501Plumpton Corr. 156 We have desevered us. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 87 They did many..famous actes..and many mo had like to have bene done, if they had not dissevered themselves.
b. intr. To separate, part, go asunder, depart.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 322 That futur temps hath maad men disseuere..from al þat euere they hadde. c1422Hoccleve Learn to die 404 To perseuere In vicious lyf & from it nat disseuere. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. lix. (1869) 98, I sygh that my wey disseuerede and departed in twey weyes. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 75 Neither he nor his sonne, should recede or dissever from Pope Alexander. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. viii. (1626) 160 Where His shields disseuer, thrusts his deadly speare. 1820Shelley Ode Lib. x, As light may pierce the clouds when they dissever In the calm regions of the orient day!
Hence diˈssevering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1470Henry Wallace vii. 557 Our disseueryng I wald na Sotheroune saw. 1536–7Starkey Let. Hen. VIII in England p. lx, To thys dyssyferyng..schal neuer succede the brech of chrystyan charyte. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 377 Pleasant..Islets lye dispersed by the sundry disseuerings of waters. a1822Shelley Pr. Wks. (1880) III. 57 Their dissevering and tyrannical institutions.
▪ II. † diˈssever, n. Obs. rare.
[f. prec. vb.]
The act of dissevering; severance.
1508Dunbar Poems vi. 22 Semper ibi ad remanendum, Quhill domisday, without disseuer. |