I. in local sense, separate, divide, “χ. ἀλλήλων λόχους” E.Ph.108; exclude, “τὴν πτέρνην” Hp.Fract.11, etc.: τί τινος, freq. in Pl., “χ. τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ σώματος” R.609d, cf. Phlb.55e; “ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος τὴν ψ.” Phd.67c, cf. Plt.268c, etc.; “πάντα κατὰ φυλάς” X.Oec.9.8; with inf. added, [“τὴν τάξιν] ἐπὶ τῷ μέσῳ ἐχώρισεν ἕπεσθαι” Id.An.6.5.11; οἱ χωρίζοντες the Separators, a name given to those Grammarians (Xenon and Hellanicus acc. to Procl.Chr.p.102 Allen) who ascribed the Iliad and Odyssey to different authors, Sch.A Il.2.356,649, 11.692,21.416:—Pass., to be separated, severed, or divided, Hdt.1.151, 3.12, al.; τινος E.IT1002, Pl.Ti.31b; “σοφόν . . πάντων κεχωρισμένον” Heraclit.108.
II. separate in thought, distinguish, “ἡδύ τε καὶ δίκαιον” Pl.Lg.663a; “ἀπὸ τῶν ὠφελίμων τὰ καθ᾽ αὑτά” Arist.EN1096b14; “χ. καὶ διασπᾶν” Id.PA642b18; esp. in Logic, “τὸν ἴδιον τῆς οὐσίας ἑκάστου λόγον ταῖς . . οἰκείαις διαφοραῖς χ.” Id.Top.108b6, cf. 132a13:— Pass., to be different, “κεχωρίδαται πολλὸν τῶν . . ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων” Hdt. 1.140: less freq. c. dat., “κεχώρισται οὗτος ὁ χειμών . . τοῖσι ἐν ἄλλοισι χωρίοισι γινομένοισι χειμῶσι” Id.4.28; “ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων” Isoc.14.49; νόμοι κεχωρισμένοι τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων laws apart from others, far different, Hdt.1.172, cf. Plb.31.23.11; “γνῶμαι κεχωρισμέναι” Hdt.4.11; opp. συγκεχυμένος, Pl.R.524c; “κεχώρισται πλεῖστον τό τ᾽ εἶναι καὶ τὸ τοῦτον φάσκειν” D.45.26.
III. Pass., “κεχωρισμένη ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνδρός” divorced, Plb.31.26.6; θᾶσσον . . οἰστοῦ . . χωρίζεται, of a wife, E.Fr.1063.13.
IV. later in Pass., depart, go away, Plb.3.94.9, D.S.19.65, Heraclit.Incred.8; “ἐκ θρόνων” Ezek.Exag.76.