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▪ I. divaricate, v.|dɪ-, daɪˈværɪkeɪt|
[f. L. dīvaricāt-, ppl. stem of dīvaricāre to stretch asunder, f. di-1, dis- 1 + varicāre to stretch (the legs) asunder, straddle, f. varic-us straddling.]
1. intr. To stretch or spread apart; to branch off or diverge from each other or from any middle line.
1623Cockeram, Diuaricate, to step, to stride wide. 1656Hobbes Six Less. Wks. 1845 VII. 195 Two lines may be made to divaricate..when having one end common and immoveable, they depart one from another at the other ends circularly, and this is called simply an angle. 1671Grew Anat. Plants i. iv. (1682) 29 All its Parts, upon their shooting forth, divaricate from their perpendicular. 1740Dyche & Pardon, Divaricate, to straddle wide, as those who are bow-legged do. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Dryden Wks. II. 387 While they [languages] run on together, the closest translation may be considered as the best; but when they divaricate, each must take its natural course. 1830James Darnley (1846) 4 At the spot where these two [roads] divaricated, the horseman stopped. 188419th Cent. Feb. 333 The different races of plants and animals have come to divaricate from each other.
b. Bot. and Zool. To branch off at a wide angle; to diverge widely from the main stem: see divaricating ppl. a.
c. To ramify into divergent branches.
1672Newton in Phil. Trans. VII. 5097 Irregularly refracted and made to divaricate into a multitude of other colours. a1728Woodward Nat. Hist. Fossils 90 The partitions are striated across..one of them also divaricates into two, and another into several small ones. 1825C. Butler Roman-Cath. Ch. 120 Here they divaricate into the Transalpine and Cisalpine opinions.
2. trans. To stretch or open wide apart or asunder (as the legs, fingers, limbs of a compass, etc.).
1672–3Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 160 The incorrigible scold, that..streatched up her hands with her two thumb nails in the knit-cracking posture, or with two fingers divaricated, to call the man still in that language lousy rascal and Cuckold. Ibid. ii. Wks. II. 362, I took my compasses, and divaricating them for experiment, I drew the circular line. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. vii. i. 336 Three small tubercles..capable of being alternately divaricated and approximated.
3. To cause to spread or branch out in different directions. ? Obs.
1670Phil. Trans. V. 2061 A Congeries or Heap of innumerable Filaments, divaricated out of the Solider substance of the Brain. 1679Evelyn Sylva (ed. 3) viii. ⁋1 Putting a tile-shard under the nuts, when first set, to Divaricate and spread the roots. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 386 Its Course was not broken, but divaricated into two Streams. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. ii. App. Wks. 1811 II. 259 Refracted and divaricated, in passing through the medium of the human mind.
4. fig. To separate mentally, distinguish (one thing from another). rare.
1868E. Edwards Raleigh I. xxviii. 714 [He] had too much intellect..not to be able to divaricate populace from people quite as sharply as did Ralegh.
▪ II. diˈvaricate, a.
[ad. L. dīvaricāt-us, pa. pple. of dīvaricāre to divaricate.]
Spreading apart at a considerable angle; widely divergent; spec. applied (in Bot. and Zool.) to branches which diverge from the stem, etc. almost at right angles; and (in Entom.) to wings which spread apart at the tips when in repose.
1788J. Lee Introd. Bot., Explan. Terms (ed. 4) 382 Divaricati, divaricate, Branches shooting from the Trunk, so as to form an obtuse angle. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Divaricatus (Bot.) divaricate..standing out wide, an epithet for branches, a panicle, petiole, and peduncle. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 173 Cotyledons divaricate. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 311 Wings divaricate, sometimes very short.
b. Divergent in opinion or practice. rare.
1855Bailey Mystic 57 The universe Contentiously divaricate, he shews Made one in spirit with eternity.
Hence diˈvaricately adv., in a divaricate or wide-branched manner.
1846Dana Zooph. 390 Divaricately ramose. 1854Woodward Mollusca 295 Shell trigonal, divaricately sculptured. |