separatedadj.n.
/ˈsɛpəreɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈsɛpəˌreɪdᵻd/ A. adj.
1. absolute.1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical vii. 80 Widdow-hood..is much to be preferred before Separation; for the Separated are Savage Animals, uncapable of the prettiest Ties of Society.1744 Life & Adv. M. Bishop 216 In the Morning all the separated got together again, to receive Orders.
a. In senses of the verb: Set apart or asunder, disjoined, withdrawn, etc.
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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 > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > separated into constituents
resolveda1600
analysed1601
untwist1607
separated1661
decompounded1797
reduced1810
broken-down1816
dissociated1882
degraded1927
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > spiritual or immaterial > disembodied
unbodied1513
excorporatea1629
disbodied1662
separateda1676
discarnated1706
disembodied1742
excarnate1858
decarnated1865
disincarnate1881
discarnate1882
decarnate1886
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective]
solec1407
separate1600
sequestereda1616
unconjunctive1643
recluse1656
separated1730
removed1766
insulated1781
stray1796
insulate1803
isolated1811
Robinson Crusoe1823
incommunicado1844
shut-out1853
isolate1854
marooned1883
cut-off1894
shut-away1911
shut-off1913
splitsville1964
society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > schism > [adjective]
schismaticc1440
schismatical1548
schismic1608
schismatizing1657
separate1680
schismaticating1712
separated1869
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xli. 13 The house..and the seperated buyldinge.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 23/2 If the separated partes can not with ease be brought together.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 137 Our seperated fortune shall keepe vs both the safer. View more context for this quotation
1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist iv. 255 The separated sulphurs or Chymical Oyles of things.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. v. 333 The Sect of the Sadduces..denied..the Existence of Angels or separated Intelligences.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 316 Every Province is a separated State, and has an entire sovereignty within it self.
1730 A. Pope Corr. 11 Sept. (1956) III. 131 I can't but look upon myself..as a separated Spirit too from Courts and Courtly Fopperies.
1869 M. Pattison Serm. (1885) 174 The Protestant or other separated communions.
b. spec. Withdrawn from a conjugal relationship without being divorced.
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1951 N. Mitford Blessing ii. v. 192 It's always like that with separated couples... Each one is trying to give the child a better time than the other.
1975 Observer 5 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 7/2 Feiffer is 45, separated, has a daughter, lives in New York.
2. Mathematics. (See quot. 1968.)
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1956 J. M. H. Olmstead Intermediate Anal. iii. 77 The set of rational numbers and the set of irrational numbers are disjoint, but are about as far from being separated as two disjoint sets of real numbers can be.
1964 T. O. Moore Elem. Gen. Topol. ii. 40 A space X is connected iff X is not the union of two separated sets.
1968 E. T. Copson Metric Spaces v. 62 Two sets A and B in a metric space M are said to be separated if neither has a point in common with the closure of the other.
B. n.
Originally U.S. A person who is separated but not divorced from his or her spouse. Chiefly plural.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > separation > person separated
separated1960
1960 Time 17 Oct. 112/2 A collection of psychologizing short stories about young separateds.
1975 Publishers Weekly 27 Jan. 234/3 Explores the bisexual lifestyle through in-depth interviews with marrieds, singles and ‘separateds’.
Compounds
separated milk n. milk from which the cream has been extracted by a separator.
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1901 Scotsman 12 Apr. 5/4 To prevent the wholesale dilution of whole with separated milk.
Derivatives
ˈseparatedly adv. rare
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adverb] > spiritually > in a disembodied way
separatedlya1641
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 417 So no spirit did at all subsist, separatedly, subsisting alone, out or beside the body.
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