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ties, and not afterwards : but it may be repealed in the 
fpiritual court after the death of the parties. Co. Lit. 33. 
5 Rep. 98. Upon the divorce of a man and his wife, 
equity will not aflift the wife in recovering dower, at the 
hulband’s death, but (hall leave her to the law ; neither 
ought the fpiritual court to grant her adminiftration, (he 
not being fuch a wife as is entitled to it ; nor will the 
chancery decree her a diftributive (hare. Preced. Cane. 
hi. 
To DIVO'RCE, v. a. To feparate a hufband or wife 
from the other. To force afunder ; to feparate by vio¬ 
lence.—The continent and the ifland were continued to¬ 
gether, within men’s remembrance, by a draw-bridge; 
but are now divorced by the downfallen cliffs. Carezv. 
&o feem’d her youthful foul not eas’ly forc’d, 
Or from fo fair, fo fweet, a feat divorc’d. Waller. 
To feparate from another.'—If fo be it were poffible, that 
all other ornaments of mind might be had in their full 
perfection, neverthelefs the mind that (liould poffefs 
them, divorced from piety, could be but a fpeftacle of 
commiferation. Hooker. —To take away ; to put away : 
Aerial pafture the lungs with gentle force 
Conftant embrace by turns, by turns divorce. Blackmore. 
DIVOR'CEMENT, f. Divorce; feparation of mar¬ 
riage.—Write her a bill of divorcement , and give it in her 
hand, and fend her out of his houfe. Deut. xxiv. 1. 
DIVOR'CER,/. The perfon or caufe which produces 
divorce or feparation.—Death is the violent eftranger of 
acquaintance, the eternal divorcer of marriage. Drummond. 
DIURE'SIS, f. [from and the urine.] Amor- 
bid excretion of the urine. A diabetes. 
DIURE'TIC, adj. [diureticus, Lat. (hagsnxof, Greek.] 
Which provokes urine. 
DIURE'TICA,/. in botany. See Arnica. 
DIURE'TICS,/. Gr.] Medicines which 
have the power to provoke urine.— Dieuretics are decoc¬ 
tions, emulfions, and oils, of emollient vegetables, that 
relax the urinary paflages : fuch as relax ought to be 
tried before fuch as force and ftimulate. Thofe emol¬ 
lients ought to be taken in open air, to hinder them from 
perfpiring, and on empty (lomachs. Arbutknot. 
DIUR'NAL, adj. [diurnus, Lat.] Relating to the day. 
—We obferve in a day, which is a (liort year, the greateft 
heat about two in the afternoon, when the fun is pad the 
meridian, which is the diurnal folftice, and the fame is 
evident from the thermometer. Brown. —Conftituting the 
day : 
Why does he order the diurnal hours 
To leave earth’s other part, and rife in ours ? Prior. 
Performed in a day ; daily; quotidian.—The diurnal and 
annual revolution of the fun have been from the begin¬ 
ning of nature, conftant, regular, and univerfally obferv- 
able by all mankind. Locke. 
DIUR'NAL,/. [Fr.] A journal ; a day-book. 
DIURNA'LIS,/. in old records, as much land as may 
be ploughed in a day. 
DIUR'N ALLY, adv. Daily; everyday.—Aswemake 
the enquiries, we (hall diurnally communicate them to 
the public. Tatler. 
DIUTUR'NITY, / [_diuternitas, Lat. ] Length of du¬ 
ration.—Such a coming, as it might he (aid that that ge¬ 
neration fhould not pafs till it was fulfilled, they needed 
aot fuppofe of fuch diuturnity. Brown. 
DIV'VIS, mountains of Ireland, in the county of An¬ 
trim : two miles weft of Beltaft. 
To DIVUL'GE, v. a. \_divulgo, Lat.] To publifh ; to 
make public ; to reveal to the world.—Men are better 
contented to have their commendations fupprefled, than 
the contrary much divulged. Hooker. —'The cabinets of the 
fick, and the clofets of the dead, have been ranfacked to 
publifh private letters, and divulge to all mankind the 
mod fecret fentiments of friendfhip. Pope . •—'To pro¬ 
claim ; to declare by a public act; 
This is true glory and renown, when God, 
Looking on th’ earth, with approbation marks 
The juft man, and divulges him through heav’n 
To all his angels, who with true applaufe 
Recount his praifes. Milton . 
DIVUL'GER, / A publiflier; one that expofes to 
public view.—I think not any thing in my letters could 
tend fo much to my reproach, as the odious divulging of 
them did to the infamy of the divulgcrs. King Charles. 
DIVUL'SION,/. Idivul/io, Lat."] The act of plucking 
away.—Ariftotle, in his Ethics, takes up the conceit of 
the beaver, and the divulfion of his tefticles. Brown. 
DI'VUS, or Diva, Latin names attributed by the Ro¬ 
mans to men and women, who had been deified or placed 
in the number of the gods. 
DI'VY POINT, a cape of Hindooftan, on the eaft coaft 
of the circar of Condapilly, in the Bay of Bengal. Lat. 
15. 55 ■ N. Ion. 81. 20. E. Greenwich. 
DIX'AN, a town of Abyftlnia, fituated on a hill, con¬ 
fiding of Moors and Chriftians, whofe chief trade is fell¬ 
ing children for (laves. Lat. 14. 58. N. Ion. 40. 8. E. 
Greenwich. 
DIX'MONT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Yonne : two leagues north of Joigny. 
DIXMU'DE, a town of Flanders, fituated on the river 
Yperlee ; the fea came formerly up to the walls, making 
a (mall arm capable of receiving merchant-veftels, which 
came to traffic, attracted by the privileges granted by the 
ancient comtes of Flanders ; it had every year a free fair 
for horfes, in July. Dixmude wa§ firft furrounded with 
walls in 1270. Philip the Fair, king of F'rance, took it 
in 1299, and augmented its fortifications. It has often 
experienced the calamities of war and fire. The magif- 
tracy is compofed of two burgomafters, thirteen eche- 
vins, and a common council. It has feveral convents, 
and in the hotel de ville they preferve an image of the 
virgin, which they fuperftitioufly fay (lied many drops 
of blood from a wound given by a German foldier with 
his fword. It has been often taken and re-taken by the 
French and Spaniards, and was ceded to the latter by the 
treaty of the Pyrenees, concluded the 7th of Nov. 1659, 
but they abandoned it in Oct. 1690. In Sept. 1692, 
they placed in it a frefli garrifon ; and again abandoned 
it in Jan. 1693, after having feized on Furnes. Wil¬ 
liam III. king of England, then took it, and putina 
ftrong garrifon, and added confiderabiy to the fortifica¬ 
tions; but the French took it in 1695, by the treachery 
or cowardice of the governor, colonel John Antoine El- 
lenberger, major-general of the Danifti troops, who had 
eight regiments of infantry, and one of dragoons, with 
plenty of artillery, and (lores of all kinds, neceflary to 
fuftain a fiege of feveral months; yet he furrendered on 
an infamous capitulation, without having fuftained an 
aftault, or fuffered the lead breach ; he was afterwards 
tried for cowardice, by a council of war and condemned 
to lofe his head, which fentence was executed at Ghent, 
the 30th of November 1695. Dixmude is much cele¬ 
brated for its excellent butter : fourteen miles north cvf 
Ypres, and eleven fouth of Oftend. Lat. 51. 2. N. Ion. 
26. 26. E. Ferro. 
DIX'ON, a town of the American States, in South Ca¬ 
rolina : twenty-feven miles eaft of Camden. 
DIX'ON’s ENTRANCE, ftraits in the North Pacific 
Ocean, between Queen Charlotte’s Ifland and the conti¬ 
nent of North America. 
DIZ AB AD', a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak: 
fixty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Amadan. 
DIZAHAB', a city of the land of Moab. Deut. i. 1. 
To DIZEN, v. a. [This word feems corrupted from 
dight.~\ Todrefs; to deck; to rig out. A low word-. 
Your ladyffiip lifts up the fafh to be feen ; 
For fure I had dizen'd you out like a queen. Swift. 
DI'ZUM, or Ditz,um, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle 
