severv.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxv. 6 He seueryde [L. separavit] hem fro Ysaac..to the est plage.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 307 Everiche in his owne celle..i-served [v.r. ysevered] by hem self [L. ab aliis separatus].

c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 147 And seuered by hem self sette euery kynd.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxii. 402 Than he seuered a part of his peple.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxxiv. 20 I will seuer the fat shepe from the leane.

1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. K3^v By which iust Minos righteous soules doth seuer From wicked ones.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Fff3 The chaffe may and ought to be seuered from the corne in the Eare. View more context for this quotation

1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine ii. i. sig. E1^v What winde hath rais'd this tempest? Seuer 'em, I command you.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 252 Least harm Befall thee sever'd from me. View more context for this quotation

1788 W. Cowper Negro's Compl. 11 What are England's rights,..Me from my delights to sever?

1908 S. A. Cook Relig. Anc. Palestine v. 56 Cremation..may have been intended to sever the soul from the body.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xvii. h ij b Mannes lippes..maye be seueryd & departed.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ii5^v Pyrocles then first seuering his eye liddes, and quickly apprehending her daunger.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 151 Her lips are sever'd as to speak.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xvi. 28 The man ful of woordis seuereth princis.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy v. 24 Amonge hem silf to bring in variaunce, And her hertis..Contagiously to seueryn & deuyde.

1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 34 §1 That all the same..Hereditamentes shuld be..seperat severed and disanexed from the Duchie of Cornwall.

1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 3 In whose person the two mightie kingdomes of England and Scotland hitherto severed, are now conioyned.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. i. 20 God forbid, that I should wish them seuer'd, Whom God hath ioyn'd together. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 53 How somere their hearts are seuer'd in Religion. View more context for this quotation

1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous v, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 327 I will..take an opportunity of severing these two young men.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 188 A revolution which severed England from the papacy.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 529 Plato sees that the ideal of the state in his own day is more and more severed from the actual.

1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. xi I would trample it [a coronet] in the mud, if it were to sever me from Winifred.

1532 Dial. Laws Eng. ii. vii. 19 b The fealtie can nat be seuered fro the reuercion.

1579 Termes de la Ley 44 b/2 Such common [viz. common appurtenant]..may bee seuered from the land to which it is appurtenaunte.

a1625 H. Finch Law i. iii Things incident cannot be seuered.

1884 Law Times Rep. 12 Apr. 201/1 Where a fund is directed to be at once set apart and severed from the rest of the testator's estate, it carries income from the testator's death.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. iv. 41 Thanne Moyses seuerde thre citees, biȝonde Jordan. [Also 1611.]

1610 Bible (Douay) II. 4 Esdras iii. 16 Iacob thou didst sever to thy selfe, but Esau thou didst separate.

1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxxix. 14 And they shall seuer out men of continual emploiment. View more context for this quotation

1718 M. Prior 1st Hymn Callimachus 93 The Soldier..rich with hostile Spoil, Severs the Bull to Mars.

?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 50 Quhen I seuerit had that syre of substance in erd.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xx. 208 The Inemyis..mycht skairslie be severit fra oppugnatioun of þare tentis [L. aegre abstinent quin castra oppugnent].

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 29^v Weeding when it is knotted, seuereth the Corne from all anoyances.

1601 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus i. vi. 484 What slimie bold presumtious groome is he, Dares with his rude audacious hardye chatt Thus seuer me from skybredd contemplation?

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 61 The most part of them that came with the Archebishop and accompanied him before, for feare of the kinges displeasure seuered themselues from him.

1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **3^v Amongst others in that Age, Sir Thomas Eliots elegance did seuer it selfe from all equalls.

1611 Bible (King James) Judges iv. 11 Now Heber the Kenite..had seuered himselfe from the Kenites. View more context for this quotation

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 14 Their Lordships advised the Lord Deputy to offer Odonnel pardon, so as he would sever himselfe from Tyrone.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. iv. v. 537 Switzerland, which had now severed itself from the empire.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xvi. 194 To sever herself from the man she loved no longer.

1872 Rae tr. Taine Notes Eng. xvi. 206 The Englishman does not sever himself from public affairs.

1435 Cov. Leet Bk. 182 For & the Craft were severed in the maner as hit [is] seide aboue, Then the Cardwirdrawers and the myddelmen most nedes bye the wire that they shull wirche of the smythiers.

1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Miii^v Part of psalmis ar sewert be this vord sela that singnifeis rest and pece.

1566 Act 8 Eliz. c. 16 §3 The Tayle of Rewarde of everie of the foresayd Counties..shalbe severed and devyded.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. v. xii. 86 He paynteth this heresie in his time to haue bene seuered, into sundry sectes.

1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. ii. f. 73^v Running in one streame til it come to the city of the Cercasians, and afterwards seuering it selfe into three sundry chanels.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 95 The rest were severed into small companies, and unlike to draw to any dangerous head.

1654 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum iv. 11 Now the will Severs it selfe..into two Kingdomes, where each dwelleth in it selfe.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xix To seuer pees, beanes, and fitches..let them be well reed with siffes & seuered in thre partes, the great from the small.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiii Whan thou hast all shorne thy shepe it is than best tyme to drawe them, and to seuer theym in dyuers sortes.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 13^v Now as ye wish, go seuer thy fish. When frynd shall come, to be sure of some.

1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Iii He bad vs seuer the consecrate breade charitablye emong vs & not eche of vs to reserue it to hym selue.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. 2056 Eueryche on oþer lik tigers or lyons Be-gan to falle, and proudly to assaille, And furiously seuere plate and maille.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy v. 648 Þe þondre, þat seuerede seil & mast.

a1450 Knt. de la Tour 49 No man shulde putte betwene hem no thinge that might seuere the loue that God and the churche hathe ioyned in hem.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lij^v Many they were y^t sought to seauer and break that societie.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres v. xcviii. sig. Ee^v There the closest ranks he seuereth.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 958 Our State cannot be severd, we are one, One Flesh. View more context for this quotation

1791 J. Mackintosh Vindiciæ Gallicæ (ed. 3) vi. 368 Let the Court of Madrid..sever every tie that unites her to Europe.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 247 Under their hands, the pediment was severed at its vertex, or divided into separate halves.

1852 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1857) 3rd Ser. xii. 171 Not many years ago the Church of Scotland was severed into two great divisions.

1861 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) III. iii. 166 Thus it was that this great tie was severed.

1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1886) xiv. 246 Another galloped up behind, and severed the hamstring.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. viii. 240 The aged man Hastened to sever with his sword the thongs That bound him to the car.

1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 377/1 Having discovered that this company was merely a swindling concern, he severed his connection with it.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 2301 But Troylus ay hem chaseth her & ȝonder, And seuered hem maugre al her myȝt.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxxii. f. xxxvi^v Y^e Brytons..that were disparkled and seueryd in many countres.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 976 On Friday at night blewe such a storme that seuered all the nauie.

1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. K4 Let the flitting aire my vaine words sever.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 23 As..russet pated choughes, many in sort (Rysing, and cawing, at the gunnes report) Seuer themselues, and madly sweepe the sky. View more context for this quotation

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxi. 168 A gale of wind has severed the pack, and the drift begins.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxvi^v There be many men that canne seuer them, and that is to cutte the dewelappe before.

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xxiiii^v Whan the ioyntenauntes were ioyntely seased in fee symple..though that one of them made estate of that that vnto hym belongeth for terme of lyfe..yet he hathe not seuered the fee symple.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 182 b If a man maketh a lease to two for their liues, and after granteth the reuersion to one of them in fee, the ioynture is seuered.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 185 How an estate in joint-tenancy may be severed and destroyed.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 499 The question was, whether the jointure was severed or not.

1895 Strahan Law of Property (1908) 89 On the reversion being severed the conditions of all kinds are to be apportioned between the persons among whom the reversion is divided.

1895 Strahan Law of Property (1908) 132 A joint tenancy, where the joint tenants are beneficial owners, may be severed either (a) by a partition of the joint estate, or (b) by alienation by one of the joint tenants of his undivided share.

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 37 If a man..deuiseth the corne growing vpon the lande, and dyeth before it bee seuered, the deuisee shall haue it.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 55 b If a Disseisor sowe the ground and seuer the corne.

1911 W. B. Odgers & W. B. Odgers Comm. Law Eng. I. 329 All these become personal property as soon as they are severed from the soil, and until they are severed they cannot, of course, be carried away.

1911 W. B. Odgers & W. B. Odgers Comm. Law Eng. II. 700 The produce of the trees, when they should be cut down and severed from the freehold.

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 29 By our law if two bring a writ of warde of the body of the heire beeing within age, and the one of them is summoned and seuered, and the other recouereth, hee which was seuered may haue a writte of accompt against the other for the profites.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 139 In reall or mixt actions the Nonsuite of one Demandant is not the Nonsuite of both, but he that makes default shall be summoned and seuered.

1652 tr. A. Fitzherbert New Natura Brevium 36 If one of those who is named by his proper name, will not sue..he shall be severed.

1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent i. vi. 109 If two Coparceners join against the Alienee in a Writ of Partition at Common Law, and one of them does not proceed, yet he may be summoned and severed, as his Part shall be parted and severed, as well as the other Parts.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 57 Are you all agreed as to your Challenges?.. No, my Lord... Then we must do as before, sever you, and go to tryal severally.

1691 Arraignm., Trials, & Condemnation Sir R. Grahme 22 Since they are pleased to declare they will sever in their Challenges, we must desire to sever them in their Tryal, and to begin with the Tryal of my Lord Preston.

c1375 Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B.) 396 In oure last day..when þis worlde & we shal seuer.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1987 & vche segge as sore to seuer with hym þere As þay hade wonde worþyly with þat wlonk euer.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1797 Ho..semly hym kyssed, & siþen ho seueres hym fro.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 86 Gude lycht harnes fra that tyme wyst he euir, For sodeyn stryff fra it he wald nocht seuir.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. x. 60 Sone eftir baith þe armyis siverit and returnit hame.

a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnn3/2 Come all sever, But keep still within sight.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 366 Seek not temptation then, which to avoide Were better, and most likelie if from mee Thou sever not. View more context for this quotation

1717 A. Pope Leaving Town in Wks. 373 From the dear man unwilling she must sever, Yet takes one kiss before she parts for ever.

1792 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 358 Ae fond kiss, and then we sever.

1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 31 Should we sever from each other,..no foreign power will ally with us.

1842 W. A. Butler Serm. (1849) 1st Ser. x. 166 The more the parties sever, the closer the knot is bound.

1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. I.v Many tymes the one [vein] seuereth from the other, before conuenient season and so causeth aborcement.

1598 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. (new ed.) f. 30 If modesty and women once doe seuer, Farewell our fame, farewell our name for euer.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Zz1^v Theis three as in the bodye, so in the minde seeldome meete, and Commonly seuer . View more context for this quotation

a1626 F. Bacon Physiol. Remains in Baconiana (1679) 140 Spirit of Wine mingled with common Water, although it be much lighter than Oyl,..severeth not again, as Oyl doth.

1859 Ld. Lytton Once in Wanderer xxiii These lips from thine, I know, must sever.

1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl V. iii. 86 Her lips severed, but no voice was heard.

1811 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. 130 The deaf man..Felt her hands' pressure soft and warm, Saw her lips sever.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. i. i. 7 'T is thus,..The portals of fulfilment widely sever.

c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 2527 Her companye Ne seuereth nat, but y-fere Eche ys to other so entere.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 4084 She..slowe of hem vp-on euery syde, Makynge her rengis for to seuere wyde.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cij^v This fortresse stode in suche a place, that what with waters and what with marishes, the army must seuer in thre partes.

1608 G. Chapman Conspiracie Duke of Byron iii. i As, the soul departed from the body, The body wants coherence in his parts Can not consist but seuer and dissolue.

1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno xxv. 124 His tongue, continuous before and apt For utterance, severs [It. si fende]; and the other's fork Closing unites.

a1625 H. Hobart Rep. (1641) 344 Now though the Defendants shall not sever in Delatories, yet in Bars they may.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 57 If one challenge one [of the Jury-panel], and another challenge another, we must sever, and go to Tryal one by one.

1691 Arraignm., Trials, & Condemnation Sir R. Grahme 23 If you had joyned in your Challenges, then you had been tryed all together... That Advantage you lose by severing in your Challenges.

1824 H. J. Stephen Treat. Princ. Pleading 270 If the defendants have once united in the plea, they cannot afterwards sever at the rejoinder.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 523 The prisoners who were first arraigned did not sever in their challenges, and were consequently tried together.

1884 Law Times Rep. 10 May 321/1 The defendants had severed in their defence to the action.

1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 26 701 Motion made by counsel for the Defendants..for leave to sever in their defences.

1895 Strahan Law of Property (1908) 131 When joint tenants for life sever, each takes a tenancy in severalty or in common for his own life in his share.