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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 727 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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

SEVERY (probably connected with the See also:
ENGLISH
English word" sever ") , in See also:

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

architecture, any See also:

main compartment or See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of a See also:

BUILDING

building . The word has been supposed to be a corruption of See also:

CIBORIUM

Ciborium, as Gervase of See also:

Canterbury uses the word in this sense; but he probably alludes to the vaulted See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the upper See also:

PART

part of the See also:

WEB (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Du. webbe, Dan. vaev, Ger. Gewebe, all from the Teutonic wabh—to weave)

web of each See also:

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

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