/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Several = separate;
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that which is severed or separate; each, as “all and several.”
Azariah was a leper, and “dwelt in a several house” (2 Kings xv. 5).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.