Definition of Dissevers

1. Verb. (third-person singular of dissever) ¹

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Definition of Dissevers

1. dissever [v] - See also: dissever

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissevers

disserving
disses
dissettle
dissettled
dissettlement
dissettles
dissettling
dissever
disseverance
disseverances
disseveration
dissevered
dissevering
disseverment
disseverments
dissevers (current term)
dissheathe
dissheathed
dissheathes
disship
disshipped
disshipping
disships
dissidence
dissidences
dissident
dissidently
dissidents
dissight
dissights

Literary usage of Dissevers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Temple of Nature, Or, The Origin of Society :: A Poem, with by Erasmus Darwin (1825)
"... which by exciting violent irritation and violent sensation, employs for a time the whole sensorial energy, and thus dissevers the passing trains of ..."

2. The Botanic Garden: A Poem in Two Parts Containing The Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin (1825)
"... dissevers the passing trains of ideas, before the power of volition has time to compare them with the usual phenomena of nature ; but as the painful ..."

3. Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (1901)
"Yes, you are right, D'Artagnan, — a fatality which dissevers and destroys us, so that, my dear Aramis, let us say no more about it, but prepare to submit to ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1852)
"The next matter, which admits of a very simple explanation, is to ascertain how the Chinese dissevers the idea of a character (hieroglyphic) from its sound, ..."

5. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"... by straining after ideal exaggeration, dissevers itself from the healthy companionship of actual Ufe. But, however this be, our national poetry, ..."

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