Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Several

= separate; 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).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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