inseparate, a.
(ɪnˈsɛpərət)
[ad. L. insēparāt-us (Tertullian), f. in- (in-3) + sēparātus, pa. pple. of sēparāre to separate.]
Not separate (from); united; undivided; hence, often = inseparable.
| 1550 [implied in inseparately]. a 1586 Sidney Astr. & Stella ci, Ioy, which is inseparate from those eyes. 1606 Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. ii. 148 This is, and is not Cressid: Within my soule, there doth conduce a fight Of this strange nature, that a thing inseperate, Diuides more wider then the skie and earth. 1607 Day Trav. Eng. Bro. (1881) 75 Enuie and hate Striue in my breast like twinnes inseperate. 1742 Warburton Comm. Pope's Ess. Man Wks. 1811 XI. 67 That folly and wisdom are the inseparate partage of humanity. 1874 L. Morris Songs two W. Ser. ii. In the Park 212 The good which should be, inseparate From the evil things that are. 1887 Swinburne Locrine i. i. 220 We live linked, inseparate—heart in heart. |
b. Bot. (See quots., and cf. inseparation.)
| 1880 Gray Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) 181 Accordingly, Dr. Masters would substitute for coalescence and adnate the term inseparate. 1886 Syd. Soc. Lex., Inseparate, Masters's term for the condition in which parts of a plant are not separate. |