divel
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divel (third-person singular simple present divels, present participle divelling, simple past and past participle divelled)
- (obsolete) To rend apart.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- [eyelids] may be eaſily divelled or parted aſunder
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divel (plural divels)