dissunder

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ sunder

Verb

dissunder (third-person singular simple present dissunders, present participle dissundering, simple past and past participle dissundered)

1. (transitive) To separate; to sunder; to destroy.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The First Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     But he himself solemniz'd a retreat
     To th' Æthiops, far dissunder'd in their seat

     The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dissunder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• ruddiness