divellent

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English

Etymology

From Latin divellens, present participle.

Adjective

divellent (comparative more divellent, superlative most divellent)

  1. (obsolete) drawing asunder
    divellent energies

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for divellent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

dīvellent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of dīvellō