Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Drawing asunder; separating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Drawing asunder.
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- adjective obsolete
drawing asunder
Etymologies
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Examples
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They may all, however, have been separated from one original mass by the divellent action of the sun at close quarters.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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They result, Professor Kirkwood [1029] believed, from the divellent action of
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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_Danville Quarterly Review_ for December, 1861, he argued, from the observed division of Biela, and other less noted instances of the same kind, that the sun exercises a "divellent influence" on the nuclei of comets, which may be presumed to continue its action until their corporate existence (so to speak) ends in complete pulverisation.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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But what is the meaning of _quiescent_ and _divellent_ forces, which are written in the diagram?
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Quiescent forces are those which tend to preserve compounds in a state of rest, or such as they actually are: divellent forces, those which tend to destroy that state of combination, and to form new compounds.
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Just my advice. divellent on December 1st 2009 at 9: 47am view divellent's
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I got it when my daughter was an infant and it was soft enough for her to crawl on, and as divellent says, it's very easy to clean.
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