Obs. Forms: 1 asundri-an, 4 assunder, 4– asunder. [OE. asundrian, f. A- pref. 1 + sundrian to SUNDER.] To put asunder, separate, divide.
a. 1000. Cod. Exon., 98 a (Bosw.). Se déaþ asundraþ líc and sáwle.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., 206. He was asunderid fro alle his men.
1580. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 37. A plough beetle … great clod to a sunder.
1593. B. Barnes, Parthen., ii. in Arb., Garner, V. 409. Thou could not be persuaded that my wits Could once retire so far from Sense asundered.
