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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Several(l)y, adv. Also: several(l)ie, -allé, -ailly, -elly, severly, -lie, -lé, -lay, sewerlie, saverallie, sauraly, siveraly, syveraly. [ME and e.m.E. seuerally (c1400); Several adj.]

1. Separately, individually; each in turn, successively. c1420 Wynt. i 1334.
A se … Departys bathe thai landys thare, As severaly thai lyand are c1420 Wynt. iv 1114 (C).
Difficile ȝit it is to me To tel thar namys distyncly Or al thar greis seuerelly 1434–5 Ayr B. Ct. 31 Jan.
Ilky man seuerly beand in a nownlaw 1456 Hay II 109/24.
And lat thame nocht ga severaly bot ay togeder 1456 Hay II 147/19.
Fyve soveraine baillies … and fyve counsailouris severalie devisit, ilkane besyde othir 1460 Hay Alex. 3656.
Baith thare speris sauraly brak in sounder 1522 Selkirk B. Ct. MS 94b.
Ilk ane of … [them] severlie to pay for his part iii lib. c1526 Misc. Spald. C. II xxxvi.
Although lyff wes severallie promised to everie one of them 1529 Stirling B. Rec. in Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1905-6.
Severally 1562-3 Winȝet I 42/23.
The bischopis … to vse that power euery ane off thaim seueralie 1626 Fraserburgh Kirk S. II 13 Sept.
To sit twa seuerall Sabboithis on the stuill, and be releivit seuerallie for hir adulterie & consulting with charmeris 1697 Adv. Min. Bk. 173.
It was se[ver]allie put to the vote whether they should be continoued or a new leet be made

2. In the legal phrase conjunctly (jointly, jun(c)tly) and severally, jointly and separately.(1) 1454 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 261.
Be it kende … me … til haf maide … master James Lyndsay … Vilȝame of Murrefe … [etc.] … coniunctly and seuerly my ful procuratoris 1460 Stewart Mem. 64.
All thir condicionis … to kepe and fullfill we … oblis ws … coniunctly and ilk ane of vs seueraly be our self 1501–2 Wemyss Chart. 118.
Gyffand … to my saidis procuraturis, coniunctly and siueraly, my full and playne power 1501–2 Wemyss Chart. 119.
Syueraly 1510 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 10.
Sewerlie 1512–13 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 141.
The quhilk to do we commit to yow coniunctle and seueralle oure full power be thir our lettres 1531 Rec. Earld. Orkney 213.
Conjunctly and severly all as ane and ane as all 1541 Inchcolm Chart. 71.
Severle 1566–7 Cart. S. Giles 270.
Coniunctlie and severalie vnder the pane of cursing 1586 Jurid. Rev. IV 119.
William Durie & James Harper to be my lawfull undoubted and irrevocable baillies conjunctly & severally specially constitute 1604 Stewart Mem. 111.
The quhilkis to do we commett to ȝow coniunctlie and saverallie our full power be their our letrez 1654 Galloway P. 11 May.
Thomas McCreres elder and younger bind them conjunctlay and severlay to pay 300 merks yearly(2) 1387 Liber Melros 449.
To yow ioyntly & seuerailly be the tenour of this lettre … we bid & commandes [etc.] 1456 Hay I 268/2.
To … se that rycht war done till every part, severaly and junctly 1463 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 375.
We oblisis ws ane as baith & bath as ane juntly & seueraly