Incontinently one came after another, Dissevering and dividing the graine, and after that they had put each kinde of corne in order, they ranne away againe in all haste.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
She took the field, revolted, Dissevering herself from the class which tolerated them-actuated by a reflective moralty, she believed; and loathed herself for having aspired, schemed, to be a member of the class.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of Dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and motionless.
"Minor Poems by Milton"
John Milton