Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Divide (3)

Di‐vide″, n. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.

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Divided

Di‐vid″ed, a. 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.2. (Bot.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; — said of a leaf.

5079

Dividedly

Di‐vid″ed‐ly, adv. Separately; in a divided manner.

5080

Dividend

Div″i‐dend (?), n. [L. dividendum thing to be divided, neut. of the gerundive of dividere: cf. F. dividende.] 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum...

5081

Divident

Div″i‐dent (?), n. Dividend; share. Foxe.

5082

Divider

Di‐vid″er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.2. One who deals out to each his share.Who made me a judge or a divider over you? ...

5083

Dividing

Di‐vid″ing (?), a. That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for sc...

5084

Dividingly

Di‐vid″ing‐ly (?), adv. By division.

5085

Dividual

Di‐vid″u‐al (?; 135), a. [See Dividuous.] Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. Milton.

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Dividually

Di‐vid″u‐al‐ly, adv. By dividing.

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Dividuous

Di‐vid″u‐ous (?), a. [L. dividuus divisible, divided, fr. dividere.] Divided; dividual.He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.

5088

Divination

Div′i‐na″tion (?), n. [L. divinatio, fr. divinare, divinatum, to foresee, foretell, fr. divinus: cf. F. divination. See Divine.] 1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretell...

5089

Divinator

Div″i‐na′tor (?), n. [L. See Divination.] One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. Burton.

5090

Divinatory

Di‐vin″a‐to‐ry (?), a. [Cf. F. divinatoire.] Professing, or relating to, divination. “A natural divinatory instinct.” Cowley.

5091

Divine

Di‐vine″ (?), a. [Compar. Diviner (�); superl. Divinest.] [F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. �, and L. deus, God...

5092

Divine (2)

Di‐vine″, n. [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a.] 1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. “Poets were the first divines.” Denham.2. A minister of the g...

5093

Divine (3)

Di‐vine″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Divined (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Divining.] [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See Divination.] 1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjec...

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Divine (4)

Di‐vine″, v. i. 1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.2. To have or feel a ...

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Divinely

Di‐vine″ly, adv. 1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.Most divinely fair. Tennyson.2. By the agency or influence of God.Divinel...

5096

Divinement

Di‐vine″ment (?), n. Divination.

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Divineness

Di‐vine″ness, n. The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.

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Diviner

Di‐vin″er (?), n. 1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.The diviners have seen a lie, and have t...

5099

Divineress

Di‐vin″er‐ess, n. A woman who divines. Dryden.

5100

Diving

Div″ing (?), a. That dives or is used or diving.Diving beetle(Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; — called also water tiger. — Diving...

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Divinify

Di‐vin″i‐fy (?), v. t. [L. divinus divine + -fy.] To render divine; to deify. “Blessed and divinified soul.” Parth. Sacra (1633).

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Divining

Di‐vin″ing (?), a. That divines; for divining.Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who pretend to discover water or metals under gro...

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Diviningly

Di‐vin″ing‐ly, adv. In a divining manner.