Word Meanings - BEHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To sever the head from; to take off the head of.

Related words: (words related to BEHEAD)

• SEVERAL
  1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• SEVER
  To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting,
• SEVERE
  perhaps akin to Gr. swikns innocent, chaste: cf. F. sévère. Cf. 1. Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful. Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller.
• SEVERALTY
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
• SEVERANCE
  The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of the unity of interest in a joint estate. Bouvier.
• SEVERABLE
  Capable of being severed. Encyc. Dict.
• SEVERITY
  The quality or state of being severe. Specifically: -- Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties. "Strict age,
• SEVERALIZE
  To distinguish.
• PERSEVERANCE
  Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• PERSEVER
  To persevere.
• ASSEVERATORY
  Asseverative.
• PERSEVERANT
  Persevering. "Perseverant faith." Whitby. -- Per`se*ver"ant*ly, adv.
• INSEVERABLE
  Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable. De Quincey.
• ASSEVERATION
  The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.
• DISSEVERMENT
  Disseverance. Sir W. Scott.
• ASSEVER
  See ASSEVERATE
• PERSEVERING
  Characterized by perseverance; persistent. -- Per`se*ver"ing*ly, adv.
• ASSEVERATIVE
  Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
• DISSEVERATION
  The act of disserving; disseverance.