diversory

English

Etymology

From Latin diversorium, deversorium (“an inn or lodging”).

Noun

diversory (plural diversories)

1. (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[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], 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.

     The spelling has been modernized.

Adjective

diversory (comparative more diversory, superlative most diversory)

1. Tending to divert; causing diversion.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “diversory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)