Severy vs Severs - What's the difference?
severy | severs |
A baldacchin.
(architecture) A compartment of a vaulted ceiling.
* 1866 , Robert Willis, The Architectural History of Glastonbury Abbey ,
* 1968 , Paul Frankl, James Francis O'Gorman, Principles of Architectural History: The Four Phases of Architectural Style, 1420-1900 ,
* 1982 , Thomas E. Polk, Saint-Denis, Noyon and the Early Gothic Choir: Methodological Considerations for the History of Early Gothic Architecture , Volume 1,
(sever)
To cut free.
* Bible, Matthew xiii. 49
To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
(legal) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.
As a noun severy
is a baldacchin.As a verb severs is
third-person singular of sever.severy
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Noun
(severies)page 56,
- A handsome flight of steps, extending across the whole from wall to wall, occupied nearly the whole of the eastern severy , and led up from the pavement of this building to the great west door of the church, which terminates the interior eastward, and was designed and built in connection with it.
page 64,
- Cylindrical severies would have no place between these arches.
page 42,
- Because the two wall arches of each chapel are not centrally located in relation to the vault severies' above them (27), these ' severies are asymmetrical (Illustrations 16 and 21).
Synonyms
*civerysevers
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *sever
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Verb
(en verb)- After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.
- to sever the head from the body
- The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.
- (Shakespeare)
- The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. — Ex. ix. 4.
- They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. — Macaulay.
- to sever an estate in joint tenancy
- (Blackstone)