sunder out

present singular third person sunders out · participle present sundering out · participle past sundered out · past sundered out

1. transitiveTo separate or set apart from others; split out; segregate.

   The critics, however, sunder out one of the number and arbitrarily assign it to a different document from the rest.

   1891, Hebraica

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   It is still possible, of course, for a critic to sunder out of P as a whole this section or that, and to say of it, this is post-exilic, it belongs to a late supplemental stratum of P.

   1908, Princeton Theological Seminary, The Princeton theological review

2. transitiveTo apportion; allot; assign.

   As to the broad field of religious mysticism and the literature essentially Freudian in method, they have been sundered out for treatment by others in special articles of this number of the BULLETIN.

   1926, American Psychological Association, Psychological bulletin

3. To remove a piece of something from the whole; separate out.

   But none save Arthur there availed, To sunder out the blade --King Arthur Made King

4. transitiveTo break out; divide or scatter about.

   Religion, ritual, art, moral regulation have been sundered out of their original fusion, appreciated for a moment, and then dispensed.

   1988, James W. Carey, Media, myths, and narratives: television and the press

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   Garnets are found not only in soapstone and the aforementioned talc-slates, but also indeed scattered singly in granite, further also sundered out, in the surface soil in and around Philadelphia.

   1976, Johann David Schöpf, Edmund Maute Spieker, Geology of eastern North America