What does in sunder mean?
In sunder means (obsolete form of, en, asunder)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
(obsolete form of, en, asunder)..
And herein also her forebeam to which her bowsprit was fastened, cracked clean insunder; and some of her timbers likeways in the hold we found defective.
For everything is best understood by its condtitutive causes. For as in a watch, or some such small engine, the matter, figure and motion of the wheels cannot be well known, except it be taken insunder and viewed in its parts; so as to make a more curious search into the rights of states and duties of subjects, it is necessary, I say, not to take them insunder, but yet that they be so considered as if they were dissolved; […]
Secondly. Spiders thus hanging, when they have shot out such a thread as we mention'd, seem to have power at their pleasure to snap insunder the thread they hang by, and sail away with the other.
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In sunder means (obsolete form of, en, asunder)..
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And herein also her forebeam to which her bowsprit was fastened, cracked clean insunder; and some of her timbers likeways in the hold we found defective.
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