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Separate   /sˈɛpərˌeɪt/  /sˈɛpərɪt/  /sˈɛprət/   Listen
adjective
Separate  adj.  
1.
Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; said of things once connected. "Him that was separate from his brethren."
2.
Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; said of things that have not been connected. "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere."
3.
Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.
Separate estate (Law), an estate limited to a married woman independent of her husband.
Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a wife by her husband under deed of separation.



verb
Separate  v. t.  (past & past part. separated; pres. part. separating)  
1.
To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. "From the fine gold I separate the alloy." "Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me." "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"
2.
To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.
3.
To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service. "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem."
Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers.



Separate  v. i.  To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.






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"Separate" Quotes from Famous Books



... may be that Alma Mater in this has possibly shown a little feminine malice, for it is to a silent congress that she is made her deputy. [Laughter and applause.] And in the hundred years since we asserted for ourselves a separate place and proper name among the nations, our college has been no palsied or atrophied limb in the national organization. To the jurisprudence, to the legislation, the diplomacy, the science, the literature, the art of the country, her contribution has certainly not fallen short of its due proportion. ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

... called mastication. It is changed in the stomach, by the action of the stomach and the gastric juice, into another kind of pulp called chyme. The chyme is changed by the bile and another kind of juice, called pancreatic juice; these separate the nourishing from the waste substance. The nourishing, milk-like substance is called chyle. The waste substance passes from the body. The chyle is poured into a vein behind the collar bone, and passes through the heart to the lungs, ...
— Object Lessons on the Human Body - A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City • Sarah F. Buckelew and Margaret W. Lewis

... tragedy. This left the original team in, but only as mere names, not as characters. Their prominence was wholly gone; they were not even worth drowning; so I removed that detail. Also I took the twins apart and made two separate men of them. They had no occasion to have foreign names now, but it was too much trouble to remove them all through, so I left them christened as they were ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it. It is an essential integrant part of any large body rightly constituted. It is formed out of a class of legitimate presumptions, which, taken as generalities, must be admitted for actual truths. To be bred in a place of estimation; to ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit ...
— His Life - A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels • William E. Barton, Theodore G. Soares, Sydney Strong


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