SEVERY (probably connected with the English word" sever ")

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SEVERY (probably connected with the English word" sever ") , in

architecture

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

, any

main

MAIN (from the
Aryan
- ARYAN
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

compartment or division of a building. The word has been supposed to be a corruption of Ciborium, as Gervase of

Canterbury

uses the word in this sense; but he probably alludes to the vaulted form of the upper

part

PART

of the web of each severy.

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