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Webster 1913 Edition

Sunder

Sun′der

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sundered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Sundering
.]
[OE.
sundren
, AS.
sundrain
(in ā
sundrain
, ge
sundrain
), from
sundor
asunder, separately, apart; akin to D.
zonder
, prep., without, G.
sonder
separate, as prep., without,
sondern
but, OHG.
suntar
separately, Icel.
sundr
asunder, Sw. & Dan.
sönder
, Goth.
sundrō
alone, separately.]
To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever;
as, to
sunder
a rope; to
sunder
a limb; to
sunder
friends.
It is
sundered
from the main land by a sandy plain.
Carew.

Sun′der

,
Verb.
I.
To part; to separate.
[R.]
Shak.

Sun′der

,
Noun.
[See
Sunder
,
Verb.
T.
, and cf.
Asunder
.]
A separation into parts; a division or severance.
In sunder
,
into parts.
“He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder.”
Ps. xlvi. 9.

Sun′der

,
Verb.
T.
To expose to the sun and wind.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sunder

SUN'DER

, v.t.
1.
To part; to separate; to divide; to disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; as, to sunder a rope or cord; to sunder a limb or joint; to sunder friends, or the ties of friendship. The executioner sunders the head from the body at a stroke. A mountain may be sundered by an earthquake.
Bring me lightning, give me thunder;
--Jove may kill, but ne'er shall sunder.
2.
To expose to the sun. [Provincial in England.]

SUN'DER

,
Noun.
In sunder, in tow.
He cutteth the spear in sunder. Ps.46.

Definition 2024

sunder

sunder

See also: sûnder, Sünder, and sunđer

English

Adjective

sunder ‎(comparative more sunder, superlative most sunder)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English sundren ‎(“to separate, part, divide”), from Old English sundrian ‎(“to separate, split, part, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *sundrōną ‎(“to separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- ‎(“separate, without”). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder ‎(“to separate, divide, split up”), Dutch zonderen ‎(“to isolate”), German sondern ‎(“to separate”), Swedish söndra ‎(“to divide”). More at sundry.

Verb

sunder ‎(third-person singular simple present sunders, present participle sundering, simple past and past participle sundered)

  1. (transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
  2. (intransitive) To part, separate.
    2003, Dean Barton, Searching for the Evergreen Man, Llumina Press, ISBN 9781932047233, page 69:
    … Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders into things; he saw Knowledge before it sunders into knowing; he saw Integrity before it sunders in integrals; he saw Unity before it sunders into units.
  3. (Britain, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Quotations
  • 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
    Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —
    Such are we now.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

Noun

sunder ‎(plural sunders)

  1. a separation into parts; a division or severance
    • 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4
      He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
      I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
      And went with half my life about my ways.

Anagrams

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sundraz, whence also Old High German suntar, Old Norse sundr.

Adverb

sunder

  1. apart, separate, private, aloof, by one's self
    Ne scealt ðú sunder beón from ðínum geférum on Ongelcyricean. — Thou shouldst not be aloof from thy brethren in the English Church.

Related terms

  • āsundran, āsundrian — to divide, separate, disjoin, sever; distinguish, except. asunder
  • āsyndrung f. — division
  • sundrian — to separate, sunder

Derived terms

  • onsundrum — singly, separately, apart: privately: especially, in sunder
  • sunderanweald m. — monarchy
  • sunderfolgoþ m. — private office
  • sunderfrēodōm, sunderfrēols m. — privilege
  • sunderlīpes — separately
  • mǣlum — separately, singly
  • sundermēd f. — private meadow
  • sunderstōw f. — special place

see sundor, synder

References

  • 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", sunder et al.
  • Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), sundor.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English sundor- ‎(“separate, different”), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz ‎(“isolated, particular, alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- ‎(“apart, without, for oneself”). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar ‎(“particular, special”), Dutch zonder ‎(“without”), German sonder ‎(“special, set apart”), Old Norse sundr ‎(“separate”), Danish sønder ‎(“apart, asunder”), Latin sine ‎(“without”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)

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