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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1590
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Dissever, v. Also: -severe, -sevir(e, -sewyr, disewer; desever, -sewer, -sevir, -seyr; dissivir, -yvir, -yver; dissover. Also Latinized variants of disseverit: desseverat, deseverat. [ME. dissever (14th c.), -evir, -evyr, OF. disseverer, and desever, -sevir (c 1250), OF. deseverer.]
1. tr. To cause to separate; to put or keep apart or asunder. Freq. const. fra.(a)1375 Barb. xx. 192.
Quhen saull and cors disseuerit er a1400 Legends of the Saints vi. 368.
Al that euire ware sek & sayre, He gerte disseuire fra tham thare c1420 Wynt. i. 215.
He gert dissewyr fyrst … the gayt fra schepe 1456 Hay I. 236/27.
We say that the state … of men of kirk is departit and disseverit fra the temporale c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 1066.
Sloppis thai maid throw out the Inglismen, Deseueryt thaim be twenty and by ten 1513 Doug. iii. vi. 58.
A ful gret space dissyveris ȝou tharfra 1513 Ib. iv. i. 36.
Sen my first luf is gane By deth dissoverit [Sm. disseuerit] 1533 Boece ii. xii. 82.
The victorie ȝit incertane, the nycht disseverit the bargane c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4882.
Quhyll that our saull and body deith disseuer a1586 Lindsay MS. 55.
To disewer gentilmen frome vngentill and to desewer gentilnes frome vngentilnes(b)a1578 Pitsc. I. 208/26.
They desseuerat batht the armeis a1578 Ib. 209/24.
Nochtwithstanding the battell was deseuerat
2. intr. To be or become separated; to part or depart. Freq. const. fra.c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1522.
I am bannyst for euire From ȝow, & mone fro ȝow disseuire ?1438 Alex. ii. 4392.
Sa wysly fleand saw ȝe neuer; All held togidder, wald nane disseuer a1500 Henr. Fab. 2213.
Ȝit suddandlie men seis it [sc. vane glore] oft disseuer c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace xi. 1394.
A psaltyr buk Wallace had on him euir; Fra his childeid fra it wald nocht deseuir a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 217.
Or we twa dissevere He sall speike anys and he speke euer c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxiv. 5.
O man-slayar! quhill saule and life disseuer, Stynt of ȝour slauchter c1500-c1512 Ib. lxxxiv. 42.
Quhilk sould caus men fra subtill huris dissiuir 1535 Stewart 25059.
Fra Albione or he thocht to disseuer, The kirk of Christ he suld distroy for euir c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 989.
Thay micht na maner of way disseuer, Nor ane micht not part fra ane vther 1562-3 Winȝet II. 19/18.
Giue we dissiuir nawais fra this vnderstanding 1562-3 Ib. 71/23.
Quha disseueris fra the vnitie of consent c1590 J. Stewart 69/164.
Thay did dissouer now but proces mair
