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† diˈverticle Obs.
Also 7 -icule.
[ad. L. dīverticul-um: see below. In F. diverticule.]
1. A byway or bypath; a turning out of the main way or straight course. Also fig.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 234 Neither of them standeth in the full sweepe..of those Rivers, but in a diverticle, or by way. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. ii. (1678) 37 The first entrance..is not streight, but full of many diverticles and crooked paths. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 55 Who made the heart, and knows al the diverticules or turnings and windings of it. 1782T. Warton Hist. Kiddington 52 (T.), I suspect there was a diverticle of the Akeman shooting from Whichwood towards Idbury.
2. = diverticulum 2.
1847Craig, Diverticle..in Anatomy, any hollow appendage which belongs to and communicates with the cavity of the intestinal canal, and terminates in a cul-de-sac. |