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English
Adverb
insunder (comparative more insunder, superlative most insunder)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of asunder.
1634 July 13, Thomas Young, Letter of Captain Thomas Young to Sir Toby Matthew:And herein also her forebeam to which her bowsprit was fastened, cracked clean insunder; and some of her timbers likeways in the hold we found defective.
1642, Thomas Hobbes, De Cive:For as in a watch, or some such small engine, the matter, figure and motion of the wheels cannot be well known, except it be taken insunder and viewed in its parts; so as to make a more curious search into the rights of states and duties of subjects, it is necessary, I say, not to take them insunder, but yet that they be so cosidered as if they were dissolved;
2015, Anna Marie Roos, The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712)., page 304:Secondly. Spiders thus hanging, when they have shot out such a thread as we mention'd, seem to have power at their pleasure to snap insunder the thread they hang by, and sail away with the other.