[with obj.](rare)divide or sever (something) (罕)分割;切断 a European tradition which had not been willing to dissever reason from the law of nature. 一个不愿意将理性和自然法则分割的欧洲传统。
派生 disseverance noun disseverment noun 语源
Middle English (in the sense 'separate'): from Old French dessevrer, from late Latin disseparare, from dis- (expressing intensive force) + Latin separare 'to separate'