Definition of Set apart

1. Verb. Select something or someone for a specific purpose. "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"

Exact synonyms: Assign, Specify
Generic synonyms: Choose, Pick Out, Select, Take
Specialized synonyms: Dedicate, Detail
Derivative terms: Assignment, Specification

2. Verb. Set apart from others. "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
Exact synonyms: Isolate, Keep Apart, Sequester, Sequestrate
Generic synonyms: Disunite, Divide, Part, Separate

Definition of Set apart

1. Verb. To select (something or someone) for a specific purpose. ¹

2. Verb. To distinguish, make obvious the distinction between (two things) or of (something). ¹

3. Verb. (&lit to separate or isolate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Set Apart

set-theoretic difference
set-theoretical
set-theoretically
set-to
set-top box
set-top boxes
set-up
set-ups
set (psychology)
set a spell
set ablaze
set about
set afire
set aflame
set ahead
set apart (current term)
set ashore
set aside
set back
set chisel
set decoration
set down
set fire
set foot
set for life
set forth
set free
set gun
set in
set in motion

Literary usage of Set apart

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"In such a case, if the minor child of the widow dies, the property set apart to the widow and such child vesta in the widow ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"It was originally set apart for the use of the Cher- ... possession and set apart as reservations for the various tribes named. Still the entire territory ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"A thousand measures had he set apart Unto the sons of Atreus for a gift. And thence those long-hair'd warriors bought them wine ; Some bought with brass, ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"proveniente had been built thereon, still owned and possessed by the said Church; and they pray that said properly be set apart to said Church, ..."

5. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"mere, the oxe-/ara, evidently signifying certain portions of land set apart for oxen, or the pools near them. Two other instances perhaps better illustrate ..."

6. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"4- To set apart; to segregate. • hereunto I have called them. Actt. Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work should prophesy. ..."

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