divaricationn.
1. The action of stretching apart; the stretching of the legs, straddling.
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading apart
divarication1650
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine v. xix. 178 So that the Priests, not striding, but pacing up thereon, were not necessitated to any divarication of their feet.
1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Geom. i. iv. 139 The Quantity of an Angle, is the greater or lesser Divarication of the Legs.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. 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.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun]
forkinga1400
shearingc1400
divarication1578
bifurcation1646
divergence1656
divergency1738
divergement1766
trifurcation1884
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 67v Where (of Veynes) such distribution, & divarication ought to be made.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vii. 184 [Branches] by their co-arcture and divarication where they are inosculated.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott Dec. anno 1804 The gradual divarication of the two great dialects of the English tongue.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 439 The divarication of their branches in the parenchyma of the leaf.
3. concrete.
a. The point at which branching takes place.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun] > place where divergence occurs
twisel931
partingc1425
divarication1691
bifurcation1766
furcation1863
shear1876
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 38 Dogs..running before their Masters..will stop at a divarication of the way.
1794 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. III. 205 Flowers mostly at the divarications of the branches.
b. That which divaricates from a centre; a divaricating nerve or vein; a ramification.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun] > ramification
branching1578
ramification1578
diffusion1658
divarication1664
diramation1779
embranchment1830
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > arm or branch
branch1297
arma1398
bracec1400
ramification1653
divarication1664
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 65 They may be transmitted to the Brain, and its divarications.
4. transferred. Divergence of opinion; disagreement; divergence from a fixed standard of opinion, etc.
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [noun]
discordc1230
dissensionc1384
controversyc1449
disaccord1449
abitiona1500
disagreement1501
dissenting1593
disopinion1598
divarication1646
dissentiency1647
disconsent1651
dissent1651
dissidency1670
dissentmenta1699
dissidence1775
dissentience1864
otherwise-mindedness1865
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xi. 331 To take away all doubt or any probable divarication, the curse is plainely specified in the Text. View more context for this quotation
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋185 Which is drawn from the divarications of the cubit.
1856 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic (ed. 2) i. xiv. 91 The divarication of the two systems—our popular psychology on the one hand..and our strict metaphysics on the other hand.
1865 J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel I. 152 How reconcile ourselves to the discrepancy and divarication?
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