adv. (a.) Obs. Forms: α. 1–2 sunderlipes (1 -as), (2 sunderlipe), 3 sunderlepes, 3–4 sunderlupes, 4 sunderleps, sonderlypes, sondrilepes; β. 1 sindorlipes, senderlipes, 3 synderlepes. [OE. sunder-, synderlípes, f. sundor (see SUNDER a.) + -hlíep- (as in ONLEPY) + gen. -es. Cf. SERELEPES. An OE. synderlípe adj. occurs in glosses.]
1. Separately, apart from the rest, severally.
c. 1020. Rule St. Benet (Logeman), 47. Psalmi tres singillatim, þreo sealmas sindorlipes.
a. 1100. Aldhelm Gloss., I. 206 (Napier), 7/1. Sequestratim, i. divise, i. seorsum, sunderlipes. Ibid., I. 1362, 37/1. Seperatim, i. singulariter, synderlipes.
c. 1195. Lamb. Hom., 11. Nu weren þas þreo laȝe ȝe-writen inne þa oðre table breode sunderlipes.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 5. He cumeð to elch man sunderlupes.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., Pref. p. xxiii. Þis destinciun aren chapitres fiue … & spekeð of euch hwet sunder lepes o rawe.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 3879. Þus sonderlypes [v.r. sunder leps] he dide þem swere, Tyl Argayl schulde þey faiþ bere.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 12. Aȝt happes he hem hyȝt & vche on a mede, Sunderlupes for hit dissert vpon a ser wyse.
2. Especially, particularly.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 137. Al ðe almisse þe mon deð sunderlipe for to quemen ure drihten, alle þeo cwencheð sunnen.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 25. Ac sunderlepes he is here fader mid wisse, þe on rihte bileue and on soðe luue understant his holie fles and his holie blod.
3. predicatively as adj. Separate, distinct.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XIX. 193. Siþthen thei ben surlepes [v.r. sondrilipes],… thei han sondry names.
