severalis

severalis [ME, AN several < separalis] 1 (of items making up a collection or larger whole) separate, individual, several. 1256 advocationem ecclesie de N. ‥ cum xl acris terre mee, de bosco meo de Altoftes, sicut contigue jacent ex parte boreali curie predictorum fratrum ‥ cum communia pasture ad averia eorum ‥. tenendam et habendam dictam advocationem ‥ integram et xl acras terre predictas ~ales de me et heredibus meis MonA VI 808a; 1533 the severall expenses eght day and oder charges about the bereall of said Sir W. P. ‥. summa debitorum cum ~alibus expensis, ccccclxxxv li. xx s. v d. Wills Richm. 11. 2 held individually without being shared with anyone else, private. b (ponere in severallo) to close or fence off for private use or enjoyment, as opposed to being shared with others who enjoy rights of common (in quot. w. ref. to temporary seasonal situation). 1367 quod abbas ‥ obstupavit et revertit communem cursum aque que vocatur Smale Ee ‥ inter Ludham et ~alem piscariam abbatis et villam de Hernyng’ Pub. Works II 90. b 1284 provisum est quod omne marettum ponitur in sevallo [l. severallo] a festo Pasche usque in festo sancti Petri ‥ ad vincula, et sunt custodes A. R., Th. S., et Th. le R. Gild Merch. II 293. 3 (in gl.). severalle, ~is, ut ‘campus ~is’, superabilis, et cetera CathA.

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