Meaning of several | Babel Free

Definitions

1. diverse
2. Separate, distinct; particular.
   obsolete
3. A number of different; various.
4. Separable, capable of being treated separately.

Equivalents

Examples

“Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, to every several man, seventy-five drachmas.”

“He had a religion apart: a God severall unto himselfe, whom his subjects might no waies adore.”

“So one thing may be good and bad to several parties, upon diverse occasions.”

“the hearts of the three cavaliers were completely captured, especially as gratitude was added to their admiration; it is a little singular, however, though no less certain, that each of them was enraptured with a several beauty.”

“Each several ship a victory did gain.”

“Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.”

“[…]for several virtues Have I lik'd several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, And put it to the foil[…].”

“habits and faculties, several, and to be distinguished”

“Four several armies to the field are led.”

“Hence arose a dispute between the learned men, in which each delivered the reasons of their several opinions.”

“In the midſt of all this buſtle, I was ſtruck with the appearance of a large bevy of beauties and women of the firſt fashion, who with all the perfect confidence of good breeding, inſhrined themſelves in the ſeveral temples dedicated to the Cyprian Venus[.]”

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