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divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body. The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. Matt. xiii. 49.

Capable of being severed. Encyc. Dict.

Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope.

Each particular taken singly; distinction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To distinguish. [Obs.]

nctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.

or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty (Law), an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and common. Blackstone.…

The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation. Milman.

or cheerful. Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller.

The quality or state of being severe. Specifically: --

A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling. [Written also civery.]

See Asseverate. [Archaic]

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

Asseverative.

To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.

The act of disserving; separation.

The act of disserving; disseverance. [Obs.]

Disseverance. Sir W. Scott.