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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Sĕp'/a-rā'tion, n.

noun

n. [Lat. separatio, Fr. séparation, Pr. separacio, Sp. separacion, It. separazione.]

  1. The act of separating, severing, or disconnecting; disjunction; as, the separation of the soul from the body.
  2. The state of being separate; disunion; disconnection.
  3. The operation of disuniting or decomposing substances; chemical analysis. Bacon.
  4. Divorce; disunion of married persons. Shah.
  5. (Steam-bolters.) The operation of removing water from steam. See STEAM.