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Definition of Dissevers
1. dissever [v] - See also: dissever
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissevers
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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