Diversion (n.) The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.
Diversities (pl. ) of Diversity
Diversity (n.) A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.
Diversity (n.) Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety.
Diversity (n.) Variegation.
Diversivolent (a.) Desiring different things.
Diversory (a.) Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing.
Diversory (n.) A wayside inn.
Diverted (imp. & p. p.) of Divert
Diverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divert
Divert (v. t.) To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.
Divert (v. t.) To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.
Divert (v. i.) To turn aside; to digress.
Diverter (n.) One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.
Divertible (a.) Capable of being diverted.
Diverticle (n.) A turning; a byway; a bypath.
Diverticle (n.) A diverticulum.
Diverticular (a.) Pertaining to a diverticulum.
Diverticula (pl. ) of Diverticulum
Diverticulum (n.) A blind tube branching out of a longer one.
-ti (pl. ) of Divertimento
Divertimento (n.) A light and pleasing composition.
Diverting (a.) Amusing; entertaining.
Divertise (v. t.) To divert; to entertain.
Divertisement (n.) Diversion; amusement; recreation.
Divertissement (n.) A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play.
Divertive (a.) Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.
Dives (n.) 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.
Divested (imp. & p. p.) of Divest
Divesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divest
Divest (v. t.) To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
Divest (v. t.) 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.
Divest (v. t.) See Devest.
Divestible (a.) Capable of being divested.
Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
Divestment (n.) The act of divesting.
Divesture (n.) Divestiture.
Divet (n.) See Divot.
Dividable (a.) Capable of being divided; divisible.
Dividable (a.) Divided; separated; parted.
Dividant (a.) Different; distinct.
Divided (imp. & p. p.) of Divide
Dividing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divide
Divide (v. t.) To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
Divide (v. t.) 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.
Divide (v. t.) 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.
Divide (v. t.) To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
Divide (v. t.) 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.
Divide (v. t.) To subject to arithmetical division.
Divide (v. t.) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
Divide (v. t.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
Divide (v. t.) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
Divide (v. i.) To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
Divide (v. i.) To cause separation; to disunite.
Divide (v. i.) To break friendship; to fall out.
Divide (v. i.) To have a share; to partake.
Divide (v. i.) 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.
Divide (n.) A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
Divided (a.) Parted; disunited; distributed.
Divided (a.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf.
Dividedly (adv.) Separately; in a divided manner.
Dividend (n.) 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.
Dividend (n.) A number or quantity which is to be divided.
Divident (n.) Dividend; share.
Divider (n.) One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.
Divider (n.) One who deals out to each his share.
Divider (n.) One who, or that which, causes division.
Divider (n.) An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses.
Dividing (a.) That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
Dividingly (adv.) By division.
Divi-divi (n.) 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.
Dividual (a.) Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others.
Dividually (adv.) By dividing.
Dividuous (a.) Divided; dividual.
Divination (n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
Divination (n.) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
Divinator (n.) One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
Divinatory (a.) Professing, or relating to, divination.
Divine (a.) Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.
Divine (a.) Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
Divine (a.) Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
Divine (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.
Divine (a.) 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.
Divine (a.) Presageful; foreboding; prescient.
Divine (a.) Relating to divinity or theology.
Divine (a.) One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
Divine (a.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
Divined (imp. & p. p.) of Divine
Divining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divine
Divine (v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
Divine (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to presage.
Divine (v. t.) To render divine; to deify.
Divine (v. i.) To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
Divine (v. i.) To have or feel a presage or foreboding.
Divine (v. i.) To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
Divinely (adv.) In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.
Divinely (adv.) By the agency or influence of God.
Divinement (n.) Divination.
Divineness (n.) The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence.
Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.