insunder

comparative more insunder · superlative most insunder

1. obsoleteen; asunder; en; asunder.

   And herein also her forebeam to which her bowsprit was fastened, cracked clean insunder; and some of her timbers likeways in the hold we found defective.

   1634 July 13, Thomas Young, Letter of Captain Thomas Young to Sir Toby Matthew

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   For everything is best understood by its condtitutive causes. For as in a watch, or some such small engine, the matter, figure and motion of the wheels cannot be well known, except it be taken insunder and viewed in its parts; so as to make a more curious search into the rights of states and duties of subjects, it is necessary, I say, not to take them insunder, but yet that they be so considered as if they were dissolved; […]

   1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society [De Cive]. The Author’s Preface to the Reader.”, in William Molesworth, editor, The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury; […], volume II, London: John Bohn, […], published 1841, →OCLC, page xiv

   Secondly. Spiders thus hanging, when they have shot out such a thread as we mention'd, seem to have power at their pleasure to snap insunder the thread they hang by, and sail away with the other.

   2015, Anna Marie Roos, The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), page 304