Diverter Di·vert"er noun One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.

Divertible Di·vert"i·ble adjective Capable of being diverted.

Diverticle Di·ver"ti·cle noun [ Latin diverticulum , deverticulum , a bypath, from divertere to turn away.] 1. A turning; a byway; a bypath. [ Obsolete] Hales.

2. (Anat.) A diverticulum.

Diverticular Div`er·tic"u·lar adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to a diverticulum.

Diverticulum Div`er·tic"u·lum noun ; plural Diverticula . [ Latin See Diverticle .] (Anat.) A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

Divertimento Di·ver`ti·men"to noun ; plural -ti . [ Italian ] (Mus.) A light and pleasing composition.

Diverting Di·vert"ing adjective Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly , adverb -- Di*vert"ing*ness , noun

Divertise Di·vert"ise transitive verb [ French divertir , present participle divertissant .] To divert; to entertain. [ Obsolete] Dryden.

Divertisement Di·vert"ise·ment noun [ Confer the next word.] Diversion; amusement; recreation. [ R.]

Divertissement Di`ver`tisse`ment" noun [ French] A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.

Divertive Di·vert"ive adjective [ From Divert .] Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.

Things of a pleasant and divertive nature.

Rogers.

Dives Di"ves noun [ Latin , rich.] 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.

Divest Di·vest" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Divested ; present participle & verbal noun Divesting .] [ Late Latin divestire ( di- = dis- + Latin vestire to dress), equiv. to Latin devestire . It is the same word as devest , but the latter is rarely used except as a technical term in law. See Devest , Vest .] 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest .

2. 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.

Wretches divested of every moral feeling.

Goldsmith.

The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals.

Earle.

3. (Law) See Devest . Mozley & W.

Divestible Di·vest"i·ble adjective Capable of being divested.

Divestiture Di·vest"i·ture noun The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

Divestment Di·vest"ment noun The act of divesting. [ R.]

Divesture Di·ves"ture noun Divestiture. [ Obsolete]

Divet Div"et noun See Divot .

Divi-divi Di"vi-di"vi noun [ Native name.] (Botany) A small tree of tropical America ( Cćsalpinia coriaria ), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers.

Dividable Di·vid"a·ble adjective [ From Divide .] 1. Capable of being divided; divisible.

2. Divided; separated; parted. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Dividant Di·vid"ant adjective Different; distinct. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Divide Di·vide" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Divided ; present participle & verbal noun Dividing .] [ Latin dividere , divisum ; di- = dis- + root signifying to part ; confer Sanskrit vyadh to pierce; perhaps akin to Latin vidua widow, and English widow . Confer Device , Devise .] 1. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

Divide the living child in two.

1 Kings iii. 25.

2. 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.

Let it divide the waters from the waters.

Gen. i. 6.

3. 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.

True justice unto people to divide .

Spenser.

Ye shall divide the land by lot.

Num. xxxiii. 54.

4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand.

Mark iii. 24.

Every family became now divided within itself.

Prescott.

5. 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.

6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division.

7. (Logic) To separate into species; - - said of a genus or generic term.

8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.

9. (Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Syn. -- To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share.

Divide Di·vide" intransitive verb 1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. Milton.

The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups.

J. Peile.

2. To cause separation; to disunite.

A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest.

Bancroft.

3. To break friendship; to fall out. Shak.

4. To have a share; to partake. Shak.

5. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes .

The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals.

Gibbon.

Divide Di·vide" noun A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.

Divided Di·vid"ed adjective 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.

2. (Botany) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf.

Dividedly Di·vid"ed·ly adverb Separately; in a divided manner.

Dividend Div"i·dend noun [ Latin dividendum thing to be divided, neut. of the gerundive of dividere : confer French dividende .] 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.

2. (Math.) A number or quantity which is to be divided.

Divident Div"i·dent noun Dividend; share. [ Obsolete] Foxe.

Divider Di·vid"er noun 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?

Luke xii. 14.

3. One who, or that which, causes division.

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider .

Milton.

Money, the great divider of the world.

Swift.

4. plural An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses .

» The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.

Dividing Di·vid"ing adjective That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.

Dividing engine , a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker . (Knitting Mach.) . See under Sinker .

Dividingly Di·vid"ing·ly adverb By division.

Dividual Di·vid"u·al adjective [ See Dividuous .] Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [ R.] Milton.

Dividually Di·vid"u·al·ly adverb By dividing. [ R.]

Dividuous Di·vid"u·ous adjective [ Latin dividuus divisible, divided, from dividere .] Divided; dividual. [ R.]

He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous , selfsubsistent.

Coleridge.

Divination Div`i·na"tion noun [ Latin divinatio , from divinare , divinatum , to foresee, foretell, from divinus : confer French divination . See Divine .] 1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination , or an observer of times, or an enchanter.

Deut. xviii. 10.

» Among the ancient heathen philosophers natural divination was supposed to be effected by a divine afflatus; artificial divination by certain rites, omens, or appearances, as the flight of birds, entrails of animals, etc.

2. An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.

Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come.

Sir T. North.

Divinator Div"i·na`tor noun [ Latin See Divination .] One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. [ R.] Burton.

Divinatory Di·vin"a·to·ry adjective [ Confer French divinatoire .] Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." Cowley.

Divine Di·vine" adjective [ Compar. Diviner ; superl . Divinest .] [ French divin , Latin divinus divine, divinely inspired, from divus , dius , belonging to a deity; akin to Greek ..., and Latin deus , God. See Deity .] 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley.

2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. " Divine protection." Bacon.

3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.

4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. "The divine Apollo said." Shak.

5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J . Davies . "The divine Desdemona." Shak.

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king.

Prov. xvi. 10.

But not to one in this benighted age
Is that diviner inspiration given.

Gray.

6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [ Obsolete]

Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,
Misgave him.

Milton.

7. Relating to divinity or theology.

Church history and other divine learning.

South.

Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent.

Divine Di·vine" noun [ Latin divinus a soothsayer, Late Latin , a theologian. See Divine , adjective ] 1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines ." Denham.

2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.

J. Woodbridge.

Divine Di·vine" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Divined ; present participle & verbal noun Divining .] [ Latin divinare : confer French deviner . See Divination .] 1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.

A sagacity which divined the evil designs.

Bancroft.

2. To foretell; to predict; to presage.

Darest thou . . . divine his downfall?

Shak.

3. To render divine; to deify. [ Obsolete]

Living on earth like angel new divined .

Spenser.

Syn. -- To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.

Divine Di·vine" intransitive verb 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 presage or foreboding.

Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts.

Shak.

3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

Divinely Di·vine"ly adverb 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.

Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness.

Macaulay.

Divinement Di·vine"ment noun Divination. [ Obsolete]

Divineness Di·vine"ness noun The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.

Diviner Di·vin"er noun 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 told false dreams; they comfort in vain.

Zech. x. 2.

2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke.

Divineress Di·vin"er·ess noun A woman who divines. Dryden.

Diving Div"ing adjective That dives or is used or diving.

Diving beetle (Zoology) , any beetle of the family Dytiscidć , which habitually lives under water; -- called also water tiger . -- Diving bell , a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. -- Diving dress . See Submarine armor , under Submarine . -- Diving stone , a kind of jasper.

Divinify Di·vin"i·fy transitive verb [ Latin divinus divine + -fy .] To render divine; to deify. [ Obsolete] "Blessed and divinified soul." Parth. Sacra (1633).

Divining Di·vin"ing adjective 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 ground.

Diviningly Di·vin"ing·ly adverb In a divining manner.

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