dissever

verb

1. (transitive)To separate (two or more things); to split apart (something).

   “[T]he ſaid floud of Rubicon diſſeuereth the Galle Ciſalpine from Italie.”

   “The storm so dissevered the company […] that most of them never met again.”

   “They were two cousins, almost like two twins, / Except that from the catalogue of sins / Nature had razed their love—which could not be / But by dissevering their nativity.”

   “Henchard’s wife was dissevered from him by death; his friend and helper Farfrae by estrangement; Elizabeth-Jane by ignorance.”

   “Philosophers, Socrates continues, try to dissever the soul from communion with the body, whereas other people think that life is not worth living for a man who has ‘no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure’.”

2. (transitive)To divide (something) into separate parts.

   “If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.”