Meaning of insunder | Babel Free

Definitions

Adverb. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

“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 cosidered as if they were dissolved;”

“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.”

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