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self-division
self-division n.
Brit. 
/ˌsɛlfdᵻˈvɪʒn/
, /ˌsɛlfdᵻˈvɪʒn/U.S. /ˌsɛlfdəˈvɪʒ(ə)n/
/ˌsɛlfdəˈvɪʒ(ə)n/ΚΠ
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Pp4 Till it..runne it selfe vpon the rockes of selfe-diuision.
1682 R. Baxter Of Nature of Spirits 53 in Of Immortality of Mans Soul You say, That must be Creation, or Self-division. Ans. No; it is but Generation.
1756 Beauties of Eng. Stage III. 217 No Self-division, Bosom-anarchy Disturbs his Hours; thoughtless he labours on.
1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos vii. 177 The whole of this immense structure [sc. a tree] originated in a single cell, which, by repeated acts of self-division..has gradually built up the mass.
1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes iii. 31 This is a very pretty and distinctive plant... Propagation is by self-division.
2006 Advocate 11 Apr. 69/2 She expressed the frisson of lesbian identity through themes of self-division and outsiderness.
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