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peopled department of the Landes. It is not a sea-port, but 
stands on the Adour, has 9000 inhabitants, and carries on a 
considerable trade in the chief products of this part of 
prance, viz., wine and brandy; 24 miles east of Dax, and 
73 south-by-east of Bourdeaux. 
SEVER, St., a small town cf France, in Normandy, 
department of Calvados, near the forest of St. Sever. Popu¬ 
lation 1500; 6 miles west of Vire, and 31 south-west of 
Caen. 
SEVERAC LE CHATEL, a small town in the south of 
France, department of the Aveyron. Population 1500; 21 
miles east of Rhodez. 
SE'VERAL, adj. [several, old French, divers, plu- 
sieurs, qui est separe; Roq. from severe;’, separer.] Differ¬ 
ent ; distinct from one another.—The conquest of Ireland 
was made piece and piece, by several attempts, in several 
ages. Davies. 
Four several armies to the field are led, 
Which high in equal hopes four princes head. Dry den. 
Divers; many. It is used in any number not large, and 
more than two.-—This country is large, having in it many 
people, and several kingdoms. Abbot. —Particular; 
single. 
Each several ship a victory did gain, 
As Rupert, or as Albemarle were there. Dryden. 
Distinct; appropriate. 
Each might his several province well command. 
Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 
Separate; disjoined. 
Be several at meat and lodging; let him have 
Board-wages. Beaum. and FI. 
SE'VERAL, s. A state of separation, or partition. 
More profit is quieter found. 
Where pastures in several be. 
Of one silly aker of ground 
Than champion-maketh of three. Tusser. 
Each particular singly taken. 
There was not time enough to hear 
The severals. Shakspeare. 
That will appear to be a methodical successive observa¬ 
tion of these severals, as degrees and steps preparative the 
the one to the other. Hammond. —Any enclosed or sepa¬ 
rate place. Unused. —They had their several for heathen 
nations, their several for the people of their own nation, 
their several for men, their several for women, their several 
for their priests, and for the high priest alone their several. 
Hooker. —A piece of open land, adjoining to a common 
field; and a kind of joint property of the landholders of a 
parish.*—Not to take and pale in the commons, to enlarge 
their sevcralles. Holinshed. —There is no beast, if you 
take him from the common, and put him into the several, 
but will wax fat. Bacon. 
SEVERAL TAIL, or Inheritance, in Law. See 
Inheritance. 
SEVERAL TENANCY, Tenura separalis, a plea, or 
exception taken to a writ that is laid against two persons as 
joint tenants, who are several. 
SEVERA'LITY, s. Each particular singly taken; dis¬ 
tinction.—The severalities of the degrees prohibited. Bp. 
Hall. 
To SE'VERALIZE, v. a. To distinguish. Unused. 
SE'VERALLY, adv. Distinctly; particularly; separate¬ 
ly; apart from others.—We ought not so much to love like¬ 
ness as beauty, and to chuse from the fairest bodies severally 
the fairest parts. Dryden. 
SEVERALTY, Estates in. He that holds lands or tene¬ 
ments in severalty, or is sole tenant of them, is he who holds 
them in his own right only, without any other person being 
connected with him in point of interest, during his estate 
therein. > 
SEVERALTY, s. State of separation from the rest.— 
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The jointure Or advancement of the lady was the third part 
of the principality of Wales, the dukedom of Cornwall, and 
earldom of Chester, to be set forth in severalty. Bacon. 
SE'VERANCE, s. Separation ; partition.—Those rivers 
enclose a neck of land, in regard of his fruitfulness, not un¬ 
worthy of a severance. Cartw's Cornwall. 
SEVERANCE, in Law, the singling or severing two or 
more that join, or are joined, in the same writ or action. 
As if two join in a writ, de libertate probanda, and the 
one be afterwards nonsuited; here severance is permitted, 
so as, notwithstanding the nonsuit of the one, the other may 
severally proceed. 
SEVE'RE, adj. [severus, Lat.] Sharp; apt to pu¬ 
nish; censorious; apt to blame; hard; rigorous.—Let your 
zeal, if it must be expressed in anger, be always more 
severe against thyself than against others. Bp. Taylor. — 
Rigid; austere; morose; harsh; not indulgent. 
Am I upbraided ? not enough severe 
It seems, in thy restraint. Milton. 
Cruel; inexorable.—His severe wrath shall he sharpen 
for a sword. Wisdom. —Regulated by rigid rules; strict. 
Truth, wisdom, sanctitude, severe and pure, 
Severe, but in true filial freedom plac’d. Milton. 
Exempt from all levity of appearance; grave; sober; 
sedate. 
His grave rebuke. 
Severe in youthful beauty, added grace. Milton. 
Taught by thy practice steadily to steer 
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope. 
Not lax; not airy; close; strictly methodical; rigidly 
exact.—Their beauty, I leave it rather to the delicate wit of 
poets, than venture upon so nice a subject with my severer 
style. More. —Painful; afflictive.—These piercing fires as 
soft as now severe. Milton. —Close ; concise; not luxu¬ 
riant.—The Latin, a most severe and compendious language, 
often expresses that in one word, which modern tongues 
cannot in more. Dryden. 
SEVE'RELY, adv. Painfully ; afflictively.—We have 
wasted our strength to attain ends different from those for 
which we undertook the war, and often to effect others, 
which after a peace we may severely repent. Swift. — 
Ferociously; horridly. 
More formidable Hydra stands within; 
Whose jaws with iron teeth severely grin. Dryden. 
Strictly; rigorously.—To be or fondly or severely kind. 
Savage. 
SEVERIANS, or Severiani, in Ecclesiastical History. 
There were two sects of heretics thus called: the first, who 
are as old as the beginning of the third century, were an 
impure branch of the Gnostics; thus called from their chief, 
Severus. 
The second, by some called Severites, were a sect of Mo- 
nophysites, or Eutychians. Severus was preferred to the 
see of Antioch in 513, where he did his utmost to set aside 
the council of Chalcedon. 
SEUERIK, a village of Diarbekir, in Asiatic Turkey; 50 
miles west of Diarbekir. 
SEVERIN, a small town of Austrian Illyria, in Croatia, 
to the west of Carlstadt, on the river Kulpa. 
SEVERINA, St., a considerable town in the south part of 
the kingdom of Naples, in Calabria Ultra, situated on a rocky 
eminence near the Neto. It is tolerably built, is the see of an 
archbishop, and contains 6000 inhabitants; 18 miles south 
of Cosenza, and 93 north-east of Reggio. 
SEVER1NO, St., a town of the Popedom, in the mar- 
quisate of Ancona, on the small river Potenza. Though 
small, it is the see of a bishop; 30 miles south-south-west of 
Ancona, and 83 north-north-east of Rome. 
SEVERINO, St., a small town in the south-west part of the 
kingdom of Naples, in the Principato Citra, with 2100 in¬ 
habitants ; 5 miles north of Salerno. 
SEVERINUS (Marcus Aurelius), a distinguished physi¬ 
cian, 
