dissunder

From dis- +‎ sunder.

dissunder (third-person singular simple present dissunders, present participle dissundering, simple past and past participle dissundered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To separate; to break apart; to destroy.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The First Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     But he himself solemniz'd a retreat
     To th' Æthiops, far dissunder'd in their seat

     The spelling has been modernized.

• “dissunder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ruddiness