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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissever.

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Examples

  • Hence Plato says in the Phaedo: The philosopher is manifest in this, that he dissevers the soul from communion with the body.

    The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

  • They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other at the matrimonial jokes and the prohibition jokes; they paraded the lobby, arm in arm, between acts, and in the glee of his first release from the shame which dissevers fathers and sons Ted chuckled, “Dad, did you ever hear the one about the three milliners and the judge?”

    Babbit 2004

  • They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other at the matrimonial jokes and the prohibition jokes; they paraded the lobby, arm in arm, between acts, and in the glee of his first release from the shame which dissevers fathers and sons Ted chuckled, “Dad, did you ever hear the one about the three milliners and the judge?

    Chapter 19 1922

  • They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other at the matrimonial jokes and the prohibition jokes; they paraded the lobby, arm in arm, between acts, and in the glee of his first release from the shame which dissevers fathers and sons Ted chuckled, ` ` Dad, did you ever hear the one about the three milliners and the judge? ''

    Babbitt 1922

  • They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other at the matrimonial jokes and the prohibition jokes; they paraded the lobby, arm in arm, between acts, and in the glee of his first release from the shame which dissevers fathers and sons Ted chuckled, "Dad, did you ever hear the one about the three milliners and the judge?"

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • The instrument of the purely mundane consciousness, on the other hand, is the _reason_, which dissevers and dissects phenomena, divining unity through correlation.

    Four-Dimensional Vistas Claude Fayette Bragdon 1906

  • That is the difference which at a stroke dissevers them from any helter-skelter character in Dumas as utterly as from any of our clearest thinkers in office.

    The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884

  • This however not only unnaturally dissevers contiguous clauses, but assigns to eklerothemen a weakened sense inconsistent with the Scripture usage of that and its cognate words.

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

  • I have seen it mentioned as a great absurdity in the Linnæan classification, that it places (which by-the-way it does not) the violet by the side of the oak; it certainly dissevers natural affinities, and brings together things quite as unlike as the oak and the violet are.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • For the more powerful stimulus dissevers the progressive catenations of animal motions, described in Sect.

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

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