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English
Etymology
From Latin diversorium, deversorium (“an inn or lodging”).
Noun
diversory (plural diversories)
- (obsolete, rare) A wayside inn.
1614–1615, Homer, “The Fourteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, , volume II, London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC:For slaughtering one , through many regions stray'd
In my stall, as his diversory, stay'd.
Adjective
diversory (comparative more diversory, superlative most diversory)
- Tending to divert; causing diversion.