Separate | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Sĕp’a-rāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SEPARATED; p. pr. & vb. n. SEPARATING.] [Lat. separare, separatum, from se, aside, and parare, to make ready, prepare; It. separare, Sp., Pg., & Pr. separar, Fr. séparer.]

Sense 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden.

Sense 2. To sever, as by an intervening space; to hold apart; to lie between.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Rom. viii. 35.

Sense 3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. Acts xiii. 2.

Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers, one kind having only stamens, the other only pistils, or imperfect stamens;—called also imperfect flowers. Gray.

Sēp'a-rāte, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from each other; as, the parties separated, and each retired.

Sēp'a-rate, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. separatus, p. p. of separare.]

Divided from another or others; disjointed; disconnected; separated;—used of things that have been united or connected. “Him that was separate from his brethren.” Gen. xlix. 26.
Unconnected; not united; distinct;—used of things that have not been connected.

For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. Heb. vii. 26. 3. Disunited from the body; incorporeal; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.