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[Also sinder (Sc.); With an ugli noise no ye for to here, Hit sundrit there sailes & there sad ropis; Cut of there cables were caget to gedur. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3702. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 138. Which Alpes are sundred by the space of many miles the one from the other. Coryat, Crudities, I. 56. The sea that sunders him from thence. Past. As he sat In hall at old Caerleon, the high doors Were softly sunder'd , and thro' these a youth Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. Syn. To disjoin, disconnect, sever, di ever, di ociate. II. in trans. To part; be separated; quit each other; be severed. Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 411. sunderance Any sunderance of sympathy with the Mother Country. The American, VIII. 343. sunderlingt, adv. [ME. sunder ling (= MD. son derlingh = MLG. sunderlinges, sunder lin gen, adv., sunder link, adj.), To uch one sunder ling he zaf a dole. Castell off Love, p. 290.