SEPARA'TION, n. L. separatio.
1. The act of separating, severing or disconnecting disjunction as the separation of the soul from the body.
2. The state of being separate disunion disconection.
All the days of his separation he is holy to the lord. Numbers 6 .
3. The operation of disuniting or decomposing substances chimical analysis.
4. Divorce disunion of married persons.
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