1597 T. Morley Annot. sig. ¶ As for the diuision, Musicke is either speculatiue or practicall.
1839 G. Bird 32 Absolute motion..relative motion... Besides these, there are some other divisions of motion..[as] uniform..accelerated..retarded.
1853 W. Thomson (ed. 3) §57. 109 Division is the enumeration of the various co-ordinate species of which a proximate genus is composed.