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  • English Word Divertise Definition To divert; to entertain.
  • English Word Divertisement Definition Diversion; amusement; recreation.
  • English Word Divertissement Definition A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play.
  • English Word Divertive Definition Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.
  • English Word Dives Definition The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.
  • English Word Divest Definition To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
  • English Word Divest Definition Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.
  • English Word Divest Definition See Devest.
  • English Word Divested Definition of Divest
  • English Word Divestible Definition Capable of being divested.
  • English Word Divesting Definition of Divest
  • English Word Divestiture Definition The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
  • English Word Divestment Definition The act of divesting.
  • English Word Divesture Definition Divestiture.
  • English Word Divet Definition See Divot.
  • English Word Divi-divi Definition A small tree of tropical America (Caesalpinia coriaria), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers.
  • English Word Dividable Definition Capable of being divided; divisible.
  • English Word Dividable Definition Divided; separated; parted.
  • English Word Dividant Definition Different; distinct.
  • English Word Divide Definition To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
  • English Word Divide Definition To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.
  • English Word Divide Definition To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.
  • English Word Divide Definition To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
  • English Word Divide Definition To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.
  • English Word Divide Definition To subject to arithmetical division.
  • English Word Divide Definition To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
  • English Word Divide Definition To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
  • English Word Divide Definition To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
  • English Word Divide Definition To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
  • English Word Divide Definition To cause separation; to disunite.