*divi*

n. classification according to more than one attribute at the same time.
Syn. -- cross-classification. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Divide. ] 1. Capable of being divided; divisible. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Divided; separated; parted. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Different; distinct. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Divided; p. pr. & vb. n. Dividing. ] [ L. dividere, divisum; di- = dis- + root signifying to part; cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. Cf. Device, Devise. ] 1. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divide the living child in two. 1 Kings iii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let it divide the waters from the waters. Gen. i. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

True justice unto people to divide. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand. Mark iii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every family became now divided within itself. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

Syn. -- To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. J. Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause separation; to disunite. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To break friendship; to fall out. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To have a share; to partake. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. 1. Parted; disunited; distributed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Separately; in a divided manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) A number or quantity which is to be divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dividend; share. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who deals out to each his share. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who made me a judge or a divider over you? Luke xii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who, or that which, causes division. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Money, the great divider of the world. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another). The structure may be a wall with an opening in it to allow seeing one part of the room from the other. This term is also used to designate a semitransparent curtain formed by hanging multiple strings of various materials from a ceiling, intended to visually partition a room without inhibiting passage between the partitions
Syn. -- partition, room divider. [ WordNet 1.5 PJC ]

a. That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By division. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Bot.) A small tree of tropical America (Cæsalpinia coriaria), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Dividuous. ] Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By dividing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dividuus divisible, divided, fr. dividere. ] Divided; dividual. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. divinatio, fr. divinare, divinatum, to foresee, foretell, fr. divinus: cf. F. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Divination. ] One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. [ R. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. divinatoire. ] Professing, or relating to, divination. “A natural divinatory instinct.” Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Diviner superl. Divinest. ] [ F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. &unr_;, and L. deus, God. See Deity. ] 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. “The immensity of the divine nature.” Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. “Divine protection.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. “The divine Apollo said.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

But not to one in this benighted age
Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,
Misgave him. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Relating to divinity or theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

Church history and other divine learning. South.

Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a. ] 1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. “Poets were the first divines.” Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 conjecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To foretell; to predict; to presage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To render divine; to deify. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Living on earth like angel new divined. Spenser.

Syn. -- To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

Most divinely fair. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. By the agency or influence of God. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Divination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. [ 1913 Webster ]

The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who divines. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That dives or is used or diving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diving beetle (Zool.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. divinus divine + -fy. ] To render divine; to deify. [ Obs. ] “Blessed and divinified soul.” Parth. Sacra (1633). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That divines; for divining. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who claim to be able to discover water or metals under ground by sensing them through such a rod. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a divining manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A diviner. [ Obs. ] “ I am no divinistre.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Divinities [ F. divinité, L. divinitas. See Divine, a. ] 1. The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The Deity; the Supreme Being; God. [ 1913 Webster ]

This the divinity that within us. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pretended deity of pagans; a false god. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beastly divinities, and droves of gods. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man. [ 1913 Webster ]

God . . . employing these subservient divinities. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe. [ 1913 Webster ]

They say there is divinity in odd numbers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There's such divinity doth hedge a king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divinity is essentially the first of the professions. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Case divinity, casuistry. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bookbinding) Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A making divine. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To invest with a divine character; to deify. [ R. ] M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man had divinized all those objects of awe. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. divisibilité. ] The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divisibility . . . is a primary attribute of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. divisibilis, fr. dividere: cf. F. divisible. See Divide. ] Capable of being divided or separated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divisible contract (Law), a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other. --
Divisible offense (Law), an offense containing a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can be a conviction.

-- Di*vis"i*ble*ness, n. -- Di*vis"i*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A divisible substance. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. division, L. divisio, from dividere. See Divide. ] 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was overlooked in the division of the spoil. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which divides or keeps apart; a partition. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section. [ 1913 Webster ]

Communities and divisions of men. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was a division among the people. John vii. 43. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will put a division between my people and thy people. Ex. viii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote. [ 1913 Webster ]

The motion passed without a division. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Math.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Logic) The separation of a genus into its constituent species. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Mil.) (a) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer. (b) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion. (c) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Naut.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Mus.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. (Rhet.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. (Biol.) A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cell division (Biol.), a method of cell increase, in which new cells are formed by the division of the parent cell. In this process, the cell nucleus undergoes peculiar differentiations and changes, as shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, called the daughter cells. --
Long division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mostly written down. --
Short division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mentally performed and only the results written down; -- used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.

Syn. -- compartment; section; share; allotment; distribution; separation; partition; disjunction; disconnection; difference; variance; discord; disunion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That divides; pertaining to, making, or noting, a division; as, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to be divisional. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Divisional. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who divides or makes division. [ Obs. ] Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. divisif. ] 1. Indicating division or distribution. Mede. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference. [ 1913 Webster ]

It [ culture ] is after all a dainty and divisive quality, and can not reach to the depths of humanity. J. C. Shairp.

-- Di*vi"sive*ly, adv. -- Di*vi"sive*ness, n. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. dividere. See Divide. ] (Math.) The number by which the dividend is divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common divisor. (Math.) See under Common, a. [ 1913 Webster ]