† divellv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To tear, rend, or pull asunder.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > tear [verb (transitive)] > tear apart
to-loukc890
to-braidc893
to-tearc893
to-teec893
to-rendc950
to-breakc1200
to-tugc1220
to-lima1225
rivea1250
to-drawa1250
to-tosea1250
drawa1300
rendc1300
to-rit13..
to-rivec1300
to-tusec1300
rakea1325
renta1325
to-pullc1330
to-tightc1330
tirec1374
halea1398
lacerate?a1425
to-renta1425
yryve1426
raga1450
to pull to (or in) piecesc1450
ravec1450
discerp1483
pluck1526
rip1530
decerp1531
rift1534
dilaniate1535
rochec1540
rack1549
teasea1550
berend1577
distract1585
ream1587
distrain1590
unrive1592
unseam1592
outrive1598
divulse1602
dilacerate1604
harrow1604
tatter1608
mammocka1616
uprentc1620
divell1628
divellicate1638
seam-rend1647
proscind1659
skail1768
screeda1785
spret1832
to tear to shreds1837
ribbon1897
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlvii. sig. Q5 How the ancient society of the body and the soule is divelled.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxv. 174 They [eyelids] begin to separate, and may be easily divelled or parted asunder. View more context for this quotation
Derivatives
diˈvelling adj. divellent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > tending to separate or cause separation > causing separation
divellent1783
divelling1801
dissociable1835
1801 R. Chenevix in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 223 A new order of divelling affinities.
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