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English
Verb
devide (third-person singular simple present devides, present participle deviding, simple past and past participle devided)
- Obsolete form of divide.
1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:Thei devide all their inhabiters into divers partes: and every parte thei name of the kinde of those weapons, that thei use in the warre.
1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:XXXVII His owne two hands the holy knots did knit, 325 That none but death for ever can devide; His owne two hands, for such a turne most fit, The housling fire[*] did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinckled wide; At which the bushy Teade a groome did light, 330 And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide, Where it should not be quenched day nor night, For feare of evill fates, but burnen ever bright.
1630, William Pemble, A Briefe Introduction to Geography:The greater circles are those which devide this earthly globe into equall halfes or Haemispheres.
Galician
Verb
devide
- second-person plural imperative of devir