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Definition
to split something into two unconnected parts — usually by cutting
or:
to break up or end a relationship; or to separate from something
or:
to break up or end a relationship; or to separate from something
- The limbs they sever from the inclosing hide, The thighs, selected to the gods, divide.Book 2 (49% in)
- Now by this sacred sceptre hear me swear, Which never more shall leaves or blossoms bear, Which sever'd from the trunk (as I from thee) On the bare mountains left its parent tree; This sceptre, form'd by temper'd steel to prove An ensign of the delegates of Jove, From whom the power of laws and justice springs (Tremendous oath! inviolate to kings); By this I swear:—when bleeding Greece again Shall call Achilles, she shall call in vain.Book 1 (42% in)
- Apollo heard his prayer: And now the Greeks their hecatomb prepare; Between their horns the salted barley threw, And, with their heads to heaven, the victims slew:(68) The limbs they sever from the inclosing hide; The thighs, selected to the gods, divide: On these, in double cauls involved with art, The choicest morsels lay from every part.Book 1 (78% in)
- His brother leap'd to earth; but, as he lay, The trenchant falchion lopp'd his hands away; His sever'd head was toss'd among the throng, And, rolling, drew a bloody train along.Book 11 (22% in)
- Me fate has sever'd from the sons of earth, The fate fore-doom'd that waited from my birth: Thee too it waits; before the Trojan wall Even great and godlike thou art doom'd to fall.Book 23 (12% in)
- The limbs they sever from the reeking hide, With skill prepare them, and in parts divide: Each on the coals the separate morsels lays, And, hasty, snatches from the rising blaze.Book 24 (78% in)
There are no more uses of "sever" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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