asundre

Adverb

asunder (comparative more asunder, superlative most asunder)

1. (archaic, literary) Apart or separate from each other.
   • Page. I vvarrant you, hee's the man ſhould fight vvith him. / […] [Robert] Shal[low]. It appeares ſo by his vveapons: keep them aſunder: […]c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (archaic, literary) Moving apart from each other.
   • Our hartes ſwelled, as that they ſhoulde breake / The fire of loue, was ſo ſore kept vnder / When I from her, ſhoulde departe aſundera. 1506 (date written), Stephen Hawes, “Of the Dolorous and Lowly Disputation, betwene La Bell Pucell, and Graunde Amoure. [Capitu[lum] .XIX.]”, in The Historie of Graunde Amoure and La Bell Pucel...
3. (also, archaic, figuratively, literary) Into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action.
   • to crack asunder torn asunder

   Synonyms:

   apart, in twain

4. (archaic, literary, obsolete) Apart from other people; individually, separately; specifically, in private, privately.
   • […] I was of the ſame Jeſus Chriſt inſtitute: ſo this préeminence may I lawfully chalenge, that Chriſt choſe them, what tyme he was to our bodily infirmities ſubiect, but me called to be a ſondre to be his preacher, what tyme he had put of all condicions of mannes weakenes.1549 August 26 (Gregorian calendar), Erasmus, “The Paraphrase vpon the Epistle of the Apostle Sainct Paule to the Galathians. […]. The fyrst Chapiter.”, in Myles Coverdall [i.e., Myles Coverdale]...
5. (archaic, literary, obsolete) Chiefly in the form to know asunder: in a manner distinguishable from other similar things.
   • Ye summond our kynge,—why dyd ye so? / […] / Know ye not suger and salt asonder? / Your sumner to saucy, to malapert, / Your harrold in armes not yet halfe experte.c. 1525, John Skelton, “Skelton Laureate against the Scottes”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 185...

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