"Sever" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
To separate, when two joint defendants separate in the action, each piead-ing separately his own plea and relying up-on a separate defense, they are said to sever
To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to
cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.
To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt.
To separate, as one from another; to cut off from
something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by
cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.
To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to
be separated; to part; to separate.
To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an
estate in joint tenancy.
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A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, …
Read the complete definitionThe movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
Read the complete definitionApplied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of …
Read the complete definitionA sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
Read the complete definitionA separating; removal; also, an abscess.
Read the complete definitionA state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated …
Read the complete definitionConsidered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, …
Read the complete definitionTo separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality …
Read the complete definitionTo separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this …
Read the complete definitionTo withdraw; to separate; to take away.
Read the complete definitionWithdraw; separate.
Read the complete definitionSeparated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
Read the complete definitionSeparated from matter; abstract; ideal.
Read the complete definitionIn an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
Read the complete definitionThe act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend …
Read the complete definitionA separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.
Read the complete definitionA separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
Read the complete definitionThe act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
Read the complete definitionIn a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself.
Read the complete definitionIn an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.
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