Part 453

Cheyne.

5. Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.

They say there is divinity in odd numbers.

Shak.

There's such divinity doth hedge a king.

Shak.

6. The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology.

Divinity is essentially the first of the professions.

Coleridge.

Case divinity, casuistry.

Div`i*ni*za"tion (?), n. A making divine. M. Arnold.

Div"i*nize (?), v. t. To invest with a divine character; to deify. [R.] M. Arnold.

Man had divinized all those objects of awe.

Milman.

Di*vis`i*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. divisibilité.] The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.

Divisibility . . . is a primary attribute of matter.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Di*vis"i*ble (?), a. [L. divisibilis, fr. dividere: cf. F. divisible. See Divide.] Capable of being divided or separated.

Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Divisible contract (Law), a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other. -- Divisible offense (Law), an offense containing a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can be a conviction.

-- Di*vis"i*ble*ness, n. -- Di*vis"i*bly, adv.

Di*vis"i*ble, n. A divisible substance. Glanvill.

Di*vi"sion (?), n. [F. division, L. divisio, from dividere. See Divide.] 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

I was overlooked in the division of the spoil.

Gibbon.

2. That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

3. The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.