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severy | severs |

As a noun severy

is a baldacchin.

As a verb severs is

third-person singular of sever.

severy

English

Noun

(severies)
  • A baldacchin.
  • (architecture) A compartment of a vaulted ceiling.
  • * 1866 , Robert Willis, The Architectural History of Glastonbury Abbey , 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.
  • * 1968 , Paul Frankl, James Francis O'Gorman, Principles of Architectural History: The Four Phases of Architectural Style, 1420-1900 , page 64,
  • Cylindrical severies would have no place between these arches.
  • * 1982 , Thomas E. Polk, Saint-Denis, Noyon and the Early Gothic Choir: Methodological Considerations for the History of Early Gothic Architecture , Volume 1, 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

    *civery

    severs

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sever)
  • Anagrams

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    sever

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut free.
  • After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.
    to sever the head from the body
  • * Bible, Matthew xiii. 49
  • The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.
  • To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
  • 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.
  • (legal) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.
  • to sever an estate in joint tenancy
    (Blackstone)

    Synonyms

    * becut * cut off

    Derived terms

    * severable * severally

    Anagrams

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