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English
Etymology
From dis- + sunder.
Verb
dissunder (third-person singular simple present dissunders, present participle dissundering, simple past and past participle dissundered)
- (transitive) To separate; to sunder; to destroy.
1614–1615, Homer, “The First Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, , volume I, London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC:But he himself solemniz'd a retreat
To th' Æthiops, far dissunder'd in their seat
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