divellent

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin divellens, present participle.

Adjective edit

divellent (comparative more divellent, superlative most divellent)

(obsolete) drawing asunder

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit

Verb edit

dīvellent

third-person plural future active indicative of dīvellō