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sunder out en · VERB

Etymology

From sunder (“to separate”) + out.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To separate or set apart from others; split out; segregate.
   • It is still possible, of course, for a critic to sunder out of P as a whole this section or that, and to say of it, this is post-exilic, it belongs to a late supplemental stratum of P. 1908, Princeton Theological Seminary, The Princeton theological review:
   • The critics, however, sunder out one of the number and arbitrarily assign it to a different document from the rest. 1891, Hebraica
2. (transitive) To apportion; allot; assign.
   • As to the broad field of religious mysticism and the literature essentially Freudian in method, they have been sundered out for treatment by others in special articles of this number of the BULLETIN. 1926, American Psychological Association, Psychological bulletin:
3. To remove a piece of something from the whole; separate out.
   • But none save Arthur there availed, To sunder out the blade --King Arthur Made King
4. (transitive) To break out; divide or scatter about.
   • Garnets are found not only in soapstone and the aforementioned talc-slates, but also indeed scattered singly in granite, further also sundered out, in the surface soil in and around Philadelphia. 1976, Johann David Schöpf, Edmund Maute Spieker, Geology of eastern North America:
   • Religion, ritual, art, moral regulation have been sundered out of their original fusion, appreciated for a moment, and then dispensed. 1988, James W. Carey, Media, myths, and narratives: television and the press:

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Synonyms

separate out