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▪ I. † diˈrempt, ppl. a. Obs. [ad. L. dirempt-us, pa. pple. of dirimĕre to separate, divide, f. dir-, dis- 1 apart + emĕre to take.] Distinct, divided, separate.
1561Stow Eng. Chron. A ij, (N.), Bodotria and Glota have sundry passages into the sea, and are clearly dirempt one from the other. ▪ II. diˈrempt, v. [f. L. dirempt- ppl. stem of dirimĕre: see prec.] trans. To separate, divide; to break off. Also diˈrempted ppl. a.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed Chron. II. 52/1 That if either part refused to stand to his arbitrement, the definitive strife might be dirempted by sentance. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 287 Leaves like Fig leaves dirempted into three angles. 1885W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) i. 5 Does not the word ‘content’ suggest that the feeling has already dirempted itself as an act from its content as an object? 1900― Let. 10 June in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W.J. (1935) I. 647 Once as streams of individual thinking, once as physical permanents, without the immediately real ever having been either of these dirempted things. |