The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissever \Dis*sev"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissevered; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissevering.] [OE. dessevrer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + sevrer to sever, F. sevrer to wean, L. separate to separate. In this word the prefix is intensive. See Dis-, and Sever.] To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.
The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of
therm never met again.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
States disserved, discordant, belligerent.
--D.
Webster.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: dissever)
Usage examples of "dissevered".
Suddenly he flung away his war-club, red with blood, rushed upon a wounded warrior, and, chopping off his arm at a single stroke, carried the dissevered member to his mouth, and bit it again and again.
As the whole body came rushing up, they found the gory corpses of the slain, with their dissevered heads near by.
Our hero Crockett, who had so valiantly smitten the dissevered heads of the two Creeks who had been so treacherously murdered, confesses that the revolting spectacle of the whites, scalped and half devoured, caused him to shudder.
It occurred to him next that he had not eaten anything since morning, and this body of his, which for the time being seemed to be dissevered from mind, might be hungry.
It was certainly good to the eyes, and the body was not so completely dissevered after all, as it began to signal the mind that it was, in very truth, hungry.
And so therewithal departed and dissevered all the knights of the Round Table.