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where caufes are tried. Bycaut. —The council of the ori¬ 
ental princes or Hates. Any council affembled : ufed 
commonly in a fenfe ot dill ike : 
Forth rufil’d in hade the great con ful ting peers, 
Rais’d from the dark divan, and with like joy 
Congratulant approach’d him. Milton. 
D 1 VANDUROU', the name of five fmall iflands in 
the Indian Sea, near the Maldives. 
DIVAPORA'TION,/. Not muck ufed. The aCt of 
exhaling; an exhalation. Scott. 
To DIVA'RICATE, v.n. [divaricatus, Lat.] To be 
parted into two ; to become bifid.—The partitions are 
drained acrofs: one of them divaricates into two, and 
another into feveral fmall ones. Woodward. 
To DIVA'RICATE, v. a. To divide into two.—A 
flender pipe is produced forward towards the throat, 
whareinto it is at lad inferted, and is there divaricated, af¬ 
ter the fame manner as thefpermatic veffels. Grew. 
DIVARICATION, f. [i divaricatio, Lat.] Partition 
into two.—Dogs, running before their maders, will dop 
at a divarication of the way, till they fee which hand their 
maders will take. Ray. —Divifion of opinions.—To take 
away all doubt, or any probable divarication, the curfe is 
plainly fpecified. Brown. 
To DIVE, v. n. [bippan, Sax.] To fink voluntarily 
under water.—I am not yet informed, whether when a 
diver diveth, having his eyes open, and fwimmeth upon 
his back, he fees things in the air greater or lefs. Bacon. 
Around our pole the fpiry dragon glides, 
And, like a winding dream, the bears divides, 
The lefs and greater ; who, by fate’s decree. 
Abhor to dive beneath the fouthern fea. Dryden. 
To go under water in fearch of any thing.—Crocodiles 
defend thofe pearls which lie in the lakes : the poor In¬ 
dians are eaten up by them, when they dive for the pearl. 
Raleigh. 
The knave deferves it, when he tempts the main, 
Where fofly fights for kings, or dives for gain. Pope. 
To go deep into any quedion, doCtrine, or fcience.—He 
performs all this out of his own fund, without diving into 
the arts and fciences for a fupply. Dryden. 
You fwim a-top, and on the furface drive ; 
But to the depths of nature never dive. Blackmore. 
To immerge into any bufinefs or condition. To depart 
from obfervation ; to fink.— Dive, thoughts, down to my 
foul. Shakefpeare. 
7 b DIVE, v.a. To explore by diving: 
Then Brutus, Rome’s fird martyr, I mud name ; 
The Curtii bravely div'd the gulf of fame. Denham. 
DI'VE, a river of France, which runs into the fea, 
about two miles north-north-ead of Dives, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Calvados. 
To DIVEL'L, v. a. [divello, Lat.] To pull ; to fepa- 
rate ; to fever.—-They begin to feparate ; and may be ea- 
fily dwelled or parted afunder. Brown. 
' DIVEL'LENT, adj. [ divello, Lat. to pull afunder.] 
A term in chemidry, to fignify thofe affinities between 
bodies, in which the fum of the affinities of the parts of 
qne body with thofe of the other, is greater than the fum 
of the affinities which the parts of each refpeCtive body 
have with each other ; in oppofition to quiefcent affinity. 
Sge Chemistry, vol iv. p. 175. 
DI'VER,/. One that finks voluntarily underwater. 
__Perfeverance gains the diver's prize. Pope. —One that 
goes underwater in fearch of treafure.—rt is evident, 
from the relationof divers and fidiers for pearls, that there 
are many kinds of diell-fiflt which lie perpetually con¬ 
cealed in the deep, Ikreened from our light. Woodward. 
-—He that enters deep into knowledge or ltudy.—He 
yiould have him, as. I, conceive it, to be no luperficial 
and floating artificer; but a diver into caufes, and into 
the my denies of proportion. Wotton. 
DI’VER, /. in ornithology. See Colymbus. 
To DI VER'BERATE, v.a. ydiverberare, Lat.] To 
flrike or beat through. 
DIVERBERX'TION, /. A (hiking, or beating 
through. 
To DIVER'GE, v. n. \_divergo, Lat.] To tend various 
ways from one point.—Homogeneal rays, which flow from 
feveral points of any objeCt, and fall perpendicularly on 
any reflecting furface, (hall afterwards diverge from fo 
many points. Newton’s Optics. 
DIVER'GENT, adj. [from diver gens, Lat.] Tending 
to various parts from one point. 
DI'VERS, \_diverfus, Lat.] Several; fundry; more 
than one. It is now grown out of life.— Divers letters 
were {hot into the city with arrows, wherein Solyman’a 
councils were revealed. Kncllcs.—Divers friends thought 
it drange, that a white dry body ftiould acquire a rich 
colour upon the effufion of fpring water, Boyle. 
DI'VERSE, adj. \_diverfus, Lat.] Different from ano¬ 
ther.'—Four great beads came up from the fea, diverfe one 
from another. Dan.\Y\. 3.—Different from itfelf; vari¬ 
ous; multiform ; diffufed.—Eloquence is a great and di. 
verfe thing, nor did die yet ever favour any man fo much 
as to be wholly his, Ben Jbnfon .—In different directions, 
It is little ufed but in the lad fenfe : 
The gourd 
And thirdy cucumber, when they perceive 
Th’ approaching olive, with refentment fly 
Her fatty fibres, and with tendrils creep 
Diverfe, deteding contaCt. Philips. 
To DIVER'SE, v. n. [from diverse, Lat.] To turn 
afide.—The red-crofs knight diverf, but forth rode Bri- 
tomart. Spenfer. 
DIVERSIFICATION, f. The aCt of changing forms 
or qualities.-—If you confider how varioufly feveral things 
may be compounded, you will not wonder that fuch fruit¬ 
ful principles, or manners of diverffication, fliould generate 
differing colours. Boyle. —Variation; variegation. Vari¬ 
ety of forms; multiformity. Change; alteration.—This, 
which is here called a change of will, is not a change of 
his will, but a change in the objeft, which feems to make 
a diverfification of the will, but indeed is the fame will di- 
verdfied. Hale. 
To DIVER'SIFY, v. a. \_diverffer, Fr.] Tomake dif¬ 
ferent from another; to didinguifh ; to diferiminate.— 
Male fouls are diverffed with fo many characters, that 
the world has not variety of materials fufficient to furnifh 
out their different inclinations. Addfon .—To make dif¬ 
ferent from itfelf ; to vary ; to variegate.—The country 
being diverffed between hills and dales, woods and plains, 
one place more clear, another more darkfome, it is aplea- 
fant picture. Sidney. 
DIVERSI'LOQUENT, adj. [from the Lat. de, from, 
verto, to turn, and loquor, to fpeak.] Speaking differently, 
Scott. 
DIVER'SION, f. The act of turning any thing off 
from its courfe.—Cutting off the tops, and pulling off 
the buds, work retention of the fap for a time, and diver~ 
fon of it to the fprouts that were not forward. Bacon .— 
The caufe by which any thing is turned from its proper 
courfe or tendency : 
Fortune, honours, friends, 
Are mere diverf ons from love’s proper objeCt, 
Which only is itfelf. Denham. 
Sport; fomething that unbends the mind by turning it 
off from care. —Diverf on feems to be fomething lighter 
than amufement, and lefs forcible than pleafure .—Such pro¬ 
ductions of wit and humour as expoie vice and Folly-, 
furnifh lifeful diverf ons to readers. Addfon. 
You for thofe ends whole days in council dtj 
And the diverf ons of your youth forget. 
Waller. 
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