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<blockquote>True justice unto people to <b>divide</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Ye shall <b>divide</b> the land by lot. <i>Num. xxxiii. 54.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.</def>

<blockquote>If a kingdom be <b>divided</b> against itself, that kingdom can not stand. <i>Mark iii. 24.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Every family became now <b>divided</b> within itself. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; <as>as, to <ex>divide</ex> a legislative house upon a question</as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>To subject to arithmetical division.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Logic)</fld> <def>To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>To mark divisions on; to graduate; <as>as, to <ex>divide</ex> a sextant</as>.</def>

<p><b>9.</b> <fld>(Music)</fld> <def>To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share.</syn>

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<hw>Di*vide"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote>The Indo-Germanic family <b>divides</b> into three groups. <i>J. Peile.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause separation; to disunite.</def>

<blockquote>A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, <b>divide</b> less than the matted forest. <i>Bancroft.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To break friendship; to fall out.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To have a share; to partake.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>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 <i>ayes</i> dividing from the <i>noes</i>.</def>

<blockquote>The emperors sat, voted, and <b>divided</b> with their equals. <i>Gibbon.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Di*vide"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.</def>

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