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a. Different; distinct. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Divided; p. pr. & vb. n. Dividing. ] [ L. dividere, divisum; di- = dis- + root signifying to part; cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. Cf. Device, Devise. ] 1. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divide the living child in two. 1 Kings iii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let it divide the waters from the waters. Gen. i. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share. [ 1913 Webster ]

True justice unto people to divide. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand. Mark iii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every family became now divided within itself. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [ Obs. ] Spenser.

Syn. -- To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. J. Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause separation; to disunite. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To break friendship; to fall out. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To have a share; to partake. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. 1. Parted; disunited; distributed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Separately; in a divided manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dividendum thing to be divided, neut. of the gerundive of dividere: cf. F. dividende. ] 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) A number or quantity which is to be divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dividend; share. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who deals out to each his share. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who made me a judge or a divider over you? Luke xii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who, or that which, causes division. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Money, the great divider of the world. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another). The structure may be a wall with an opening in it to allow seeing one part of the room from the other. This term is also used to designate a semitransparent curtain formed by hanging multiple strings of various materials from a ceiling, intended to visually partition a room without inhibiting passage between the partitions
Syn. -- partition, room divider. [ WordNet 1.5 PJC ]

a. That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. --
Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By division. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Dividuous. ] Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By dividing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dividuus divisible, divided, fr. dividere. ] Divided; dividual. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Indivisible. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Undivided. [ R. ] Bp. Patrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. individuus indivisible; pref. in- not + dividuus divisible, fr. dividere to divide: cf. F. individuel. See Divide. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

United as one individual soul. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual. Whately. [ 1913 Webster ]

That individuals die, his will ordains. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal. (b) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. Same as individualize. [ chiefly Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. individualisme. ] [ 1913 Webster ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality of being individual; individuality; personality. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest; self-interest; selfishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The selfishness of the small proprietor has been described by the best writers as individualism. Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The principle, policy, or practice of maintaining individuality, or independence of the individual, in action; the theory or practice of maintaining the independence of individual initiative, action, and interests, as in industrial organization or in government. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a person who pursues independent thought or action. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism. London Athenæum. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. exhibiting marked individuality{ 3 } in thought and action; as, an individualistic way of dressing.
Syn. -- individualist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Individualities [ Cf. F. individualité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

They possess separate individualities. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The character or property appropriate or peculiar to an individual; that quality which distinguishes one person or thing from another; the sum of characteristic traits; distinctive character; as, he is a person of marked individuality. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A habit of thinking and acting in one's own distinctive manner and as one believes appropriate, not being heavily influenced by the opinions of others; -- of people. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. individualization. ] The act of individualizing; the state of being individualized; individuation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Individualized p. pr. & vb. n. Individualizing ] [ Cf. F. individualiser. ] To mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality; to give distinctive character to; to make distinctive; to enable differentiation from others of similar type; -- of properties of things. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of Addison. N. Drake. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to render (a product or service) suitable to each individual person by varying to some degree its characteristics; to personalize.
Syn. -- personalize, individualize, make personal, make more personal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. To consider individually; to mention each individual. [ PJC ]

n. One who individualizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an individual manner or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself; as, every person must apply individually for admission. “Individually or collectively.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist with it? Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In an inseparable manner; inseparably; incommunicably; indivisibly; as, individually the same. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Omniscience ], an attribute individually proper to the Godhead. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Individual. ] Undivided. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Individuated p. pr. & vb. n. Individuating. ] To distinguish from others of the species; to endow with individuality; to divide into individuals; to discriminate.
Syn. -- individualize. [ 1913 Webster ]

The soul, as the prime individuating principle, and the said reserved portion of matter as an essential and radical part of the individuation, shall . . . make up and restore the same individual person. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Life is individuated into infinite numbers, that have their distinct sense and pleasure. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. individuation. ] The act of individuating or state of being individuated; individualization. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, individuates. Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. individuitas. ] Separate existence; individuality; oneness. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To divide wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To divide anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Subdivided p. pr. & vb. n. Subdividing. ] [ L. subdividere, sub under + dividere to divide. See Divide. ] To divide the parts of (anything) into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be, or to become, subdivided. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A division of that which is individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not set off, as a share in a firm; not made actually separate by division; as, a partner, owning one half in a firm, is said to own an undivided half so long as the business continues and his share is not set off to him. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not directed or given to more than one object; as, undivided attention or affection. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Indivisible. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]