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Di*vor"cive (?), a. Having power to divorce; tending to divorce. "This divorcive law." Milton.

Div"ot (?), n. A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel. [Scot.] Simmonds.

Di*vul"gate (?), a. [L. divulgatus, p. p. of divulgare. See Divulge.] Published. [Obs.] Bale.

Di*vul"gate (?), v. t. To divulge. [Obs.] Foxe.

Div"ul*ga`ter (?), n. A divulger. [R.]

Div`ul*ga"tion (?), n. [L. divulgatio: cf. F. divulgation.] The act of divulging or publishing. [R.]

Secrecy hath no use than divulgation.

Bp. Hall.

Di*vulge" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divulged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Divulging.] [F. divulguer, L. divulgare; di- = dis- + vulgare to spread among the people, from vulgus the common people. See Vulgar.] 1. To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.

Divulge not such a love as mine.

Cowper.

2. To indicate publicly; to proclaim. [R.]

God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven.

Milton.

3. To impart; to communicate.

Which would not be

To them [animals] made common and divulged.

Milton.

Syn. -- To publish; disclose; discover; uncover; reveal; communicate; impart; tell.

Di*vulge", v. i. To become publicly known. [R.] "To keep it from divulging." Shak.

Di*vul"sive (?), a. Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting.

Dix"ie (dks"), n. A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War. [U.S.]

Diz"en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dizened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dizening.] [Perh. orig., to dress in a foolish manner, and allied to dizzy: but cf. also OE. dysyn (Palsgrave) to put tow or flax on a distaff, i. e., to dress it. Cf. Distaff.] 1. To dress; to attire. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

2. To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out.

Like a tragedy queen, he has dizened her out.

Goldsmith.

To-morrow when the masks shall fall That dizen Nature's carnival.

Emerson.