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▪ I. † ˈdivident, a. and n.
Also 7 -ant.
[ad. L. dīvident-em, pr. pple. of dīvidĕre to divide.]
A. adj.
1. Dividing; distributive.
1660Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον Ep. Ded. (1661) 4 The divident and impartial justice of our Sovereign Lord.
2. Divided, separate. (In Shakes. diˈvīdant.)
1607Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 5 Twin'd brothers of one Wombe, Whose procreation..and birth Scarse is diuidant.
B. n. One who or that which divides; something that separates or forms the boundary between two regions, etc.; in Arith. = divisor.
c1450Chester Pl. ii. 19 Now will I make the fyrmament..for to be a divident to twyne the waters aye. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 249 This Offa..made a depe dytche for a sure dyuydent Bytwene Englande and Wales. 1571Digges Pantom. i. xviii. E iv b, Multiply the third distance by the second, and the product diuide by your diuident or diuisor. 1656J. Harrington Oceana (1700) 47 ‘Divide’, says one [girl] to the other, ‘and I will chuse’..The divident, dividing unequally, loses, in regard that the other takes the better half; wherefore she divides equally.
▪ II. divident, -e
frequent early f. dividend, q.v. |