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† diˈvell, v. Obs.
[ad. L. dīvell-ĕre to tear or rend asunder, f. dī-, dis-, dis- 1 + vellĕre to tear. Cf. divulse.]
trans. To tear, rend, or pull asunder. Hence diˈvelling ppl. a., divellent.
1627–47Feltham Resolves i. [11]. xlvii. 147 How the antient society of the body and the soul is divelled. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxv. 174 They [eyelids] begin to separate, and may be easily divelled or parted asunder. 1801Chenevix in Phil. Trans. XCI. 223 A new order of divelling affinities. |