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▪ I. asunder, adv., orig. phr.|əˈsʌndə(r)|
Forms: 1 on sundran, 1–4 o sunder(e, 5 on sondre, one sondyre, on sundre; 4 asondri, asyndre, 4–5 asondry, 4–6 asondur, -dre, 5 a-sundyr, -dir, asondyr, -dir, 5–6 asonder, 6 a sundre, asundur, 6– 8 a sunder, assunder, 4– asunder. See also in sunder (ensunder) in same sense.
[OE. phr. on sundran ‘in or into a separate position or condition’: see a prep.1 and sunder.]
†1. In or into a position apart or separate; apart.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. (Gr.) 842 Sæton on sundran. c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark vii. 33 Ða nam he hine onsundran [Lindisf. sundurlice] of þære meniᵹu. c1160Hatton G. ibid., Asundre. 1548Coverdale Erasm. Par. Gal. i. 15 But me called he a sonder to be his preacher.
2. Of two or more things: Apart or separate from each other:
a. in position.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 282 Þei er o sundere. c1386Chaucer Prol. 493 Wyd was his parisch, and houses fer asondur. c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 133 Sowe hem..half a foote asonder. 1563Shute Archit. E iiij b, How far and how nere the pillers shalbe set a sunder. 1611Heywood Gold. Age iv. i. Wks. 1874 III. 57 Heer's a coyle to keep fire and tow a sunder. 1777Johnson Lett. 183 II. 2 We are now near half the length of England asunder. 1867Froude Short Stud. (1872) I. 23 Wide asunder as pole and pole.
b. in direction or motion.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 116 Ðe ðridde dai..was water and erðe o sunder sad. c1330Amis & Amil. 309 Now we asondri schal wende. c1450Merlin ix. 140 They wolde not departe on sondre. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, v. i. 112 My Chaffe And Corne shall flye asunder. 1719Young Revenge iv. i, Unhand her—Murder! Tear them asunder. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 685 Lochiel..while forcing them asunder, received a wound.
3. Apart from each other in character, or in one's judgement or consideration; separately as objects of thought. to know asunder: to distinguish. arch.
c1386Chaucer Sompn. Prol. 8 Freres and feendes been but litel asunder. c1525Skelton Agst. Scottes 96 Know ye not suger and salt asondyr. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. v. 82 Villaine and he be many Miles assunder. 1699Bentley Phal. 217 The several words taken asunder have nothing Poetical in them. 1722De Foe Plague (1756) 264 It was impossible to know them assunder.
4. Of one thing: Into separate parts; in two, in pieces; esp. with break, burst, cut, rend, tear, etc.
[1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 888 Wormes sal ryve hym in sondre.] c1450Lonelich Grail xiv. 199 Bothe palettes and scheldes he to-craked asondir. c1440Gesta Rom. 253 He kutte ensundre alle his clothis. 1526Tindale Acts i. 19 Brast a sondre in the myddes. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. 136 To rent and break a sunder our good and sure friendship. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. Temper i. 85 If she will saw me asunder, let her. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. v. 95 The rending asunder of the veil which overhung the temple.
▪ II. † aˈsunder, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 asundri-an, 4 assunder, 4– asunder.
[OE. asundrian, f. a- prefix 1 + sundrian to sunder.]
To put asunder, separate, divide.
a1000Cod. Exon. 98 a (Bosw.) Se déaþ asundraþ líc and sáwle. c1440Gesta Rom. 206 He was asunderid fro alle his men. 1580Tusser Husb. (1878) 37 A plough beetle..Great clod to asunder. 1593B. Barnes Parthen. ii. in Arb. Garner V. 409 Thou could not be persuaded that my wits Could once retire so far from Sense asundered. |