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χωρίζω χωρίς

I.in local sense, to separate, part, sever, divide one thing from another, τί τινος Eur., Plat.; τι ἀπό τινος Plat.:— χ. πάντα κατὰ φυλάς Xen.;— οἱ χωρίζοντες the Separaters, a name given to those Grammarians who ascribed the Iliad and Odyssey to different authors:—Pass. to be separated, severed, divided, Hdt., Eur.
II.to separate in thought, to distinguish, τὸ ἡδύ τε καὶ δίκαιον Plat., etc.:—Pass. to differ, to be different, κεχωρίδαται πολλὸν τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων Hdt.; more rarely, χωρίζεσθαί τινι id=Hdt.; νόμοι κεχωρισμένοι τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων laws apart from the others, far different, id=Hdt.

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