insunder
English
Adverb
insunder (comparative more insunder, superlative most insunder)
- (obsolete form of, en, asunder).
- 1634 July 13, Thomas Young, Letter of Captain Thomas Young to Sir Toby Matthew:
- 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.
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society [De Cive]. The Author’s Preface to the Reader.”, in William Molesworth, editor, The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury; […], volume II, London: John Bohn, […], published 1841, →OCLC, page xiv:
- For everything is best understood by its condtitutive causes. 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 considered as if they were dissolved; […]
- 2015, Anna Marie Roos, The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), page 304:
- 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.