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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 See also:English word" sever ") , in See also:architecture, any See also:main compartment or See also:division of a See also:building. The word has been supposed to be a corruption of See also:Ciborium, as Gervase of See also:Canterbury uses the word in this sense; but he probably alludes to the vaulted See also:form of the upper See also:part of the See also:web of each severy.

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