Emily Dickinson Lexicon

separate, adj. [L. sē- + parāre, make ready, prepare.] (webplay: apart).

Split; divided; segregated; distanced; not adjoining.

separate, adv. [see separate, adj.]

Apart; away; elsewhere.

separate, v. [see separate, adj.]

Divide; disjoin; set apart; [word play, adj.] distinct; disunited; peculiar.

separated, verbal adj. [see separate, adj.]

Divided; disjoined; split up; [fig.] divided by death.

separating, verbal adj. [see separate, adj.]

Parting; departing; leaving; withdrawing.

separation (-'s), n. [OFr separation < L. sēparāre.]

Schism; segregation; state of being divided or disunited; [fig.] death. (1259)

September (-'s), proper n. [L. < septum, seven.]

Ninth month of the year; seventh month of the old Roman year; [fig.] autumn; harvest time.

sepulchral, adj. [L. sepulcr-um.]

Burial; funereal; tomb-like; solemn, as of death or the grave. (630)

sepulchre, n. [OFr < L. sepelīre, to bury.] (webplay: bury, dead, grave, human).

1. Tomb; rypt; funeral vault.
2. [Fig.] butterfly's case; chrysalis.
3. [Fig.] winter.

sepulture, n. [OFr < L. sepultūra, burial.]

Burial; [fig.] winter.