ppl. a. [f. SUNDER v. + -ED1.] Set or kept apart; separated, separate. Also, divided into parts, severed, scattered.

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c. 1325.  Metr. Hom., 48. Pharisenes, That sundered men on Englys menes.

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1594.  Shaks., Rich. III., V. iii. 100. Ample enterchange of sweet Discourse, Which so long sundred Friends should dwell vpon.

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1678.  Dryden, All for Love, IV. i. Set all the Earth, And all the Seas, betwixt your sunder’d Loves.

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1706.  Coleridge, Destiny of Nations, 473. The white bear, drifting on a field of ice, Howls to her sundered cubs.

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1871.  Rossetti, Poems, Dante at Verona, xix. When the dust Cleared from the sundered press of Knights Ere yet again it swoops and smites.

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1876.  Tennyson, Harold, III. i. He … brought the sunder’d tree again, and set it Straight on the trunk.

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