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divariˈcation
[n. of action f. divaricate v. (or its L. original): see -ation.]
1. The action of stretching apart; the stretching of the legs, straddling.
1650Fuller Pisgah v. xix. 178 So that the Priests, not striding, but pacing up thereon, were not necessitated to any divarication of their feet. 1709–29V. Mandey Syst. Math., Geom. 139 The Quantity of an Angle, is the greater or lesser Divarication of the Legs. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 157/1 A force..which can..cause a divarication of the bones of the leg.
2. The action of separating or branching out in different directions, spreading out, divergence.
1578Banister Hist. Man v. 68 Where [of Veynes] such distribution, and divarication ought to be made. 1671Grew Anat. Plants i. vii. (1682) 49 [Branches] by their co-arcture and divarication where they are inosculated. 1837Lockhart Scott Dec. an. 1804 The gradual divarication of the two great dialects of the English tongue. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 439 The divarication of their branches in the parenchyma of the leaf.
3. concr.
a. The point at which branching takes place.
b. That which divaricates from a centre; a divaricating nerve or vein; a ramification.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 65 They may be transmitted to the Brain, and its divarications. 1691Ray Creation (1714) 55 Dogs..running before their Masters will stop at a Divarication of the way. 1794J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. III. 205 Flowers mostly at the divarications of the branches.
4. transf. Divergence of opinion; disagreement; divergence from a fixed standard of opinion, etc.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xi. 331 To take away all doubt or any probable divarication, the curse is plainely specified in the Text. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋185 Which is drawn from the divarications of the cubit. 1856Ferrier Inst. Metaph. i. xiv. 91 The divarication of the two systems—our popular psychology on the one hand..and our strict metaphysics on the other hand. 1865J. H. Stirling Secr. Hegel I. 152 How reconcile ourselves to the discrepancy and divarication? |