diurnal, diurnall

. [Lat. diurnal is, from diurnus =daily; dies =a day.] A. As adjective: IMG:content-0254.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0255.png:[graphic] Milton P. L. , iv. 592-94. IMG:content-0256.png:[blocks in formation] "The sonne his arke diurnall, Ypa ed was." Lydjate: Complaint of the Black Knight, 590. IMG:content-0257.png:[blocks in formation] "A slender pipe is produced forward toward the throat, whereinto it is at last inserted, and is there divaricated , after the same manner as the spermatic ve els."-Grew. di-văr-I-cāte, a. [Lat. divaricatus .] I. Ord . Lang.: Diverging or branching off. II. Technically : 1. Bot .: Straggling, spreading, irregularly and widely asunder; branching off at a right or obtuse angle. 2. Zool .: Spreading out widely. di-văr-I-cat-ěd, pa . par . or a . [DIVARICATE, V.] di-văr-I-cat-ing, pr . par ., a. & s. A. & B. As pr . par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The same as DIVARICATION (q. v.). di-văr-1-ca-tion, s. [Lat. divaricatio , from IMG:content-0258.png:[blocks in formation] *di-văst', a . [Lat. devas to =to devastate.] De- vastated; laid waste. "But time will come when the earth shall lie divast, When heav'n and hell shall both be filled at last." Owen: Epigrams (1677). ( Nares .) dive, deve, *duve, *dyve, v. i. & t . [A. S. dýfan; Icel. dyfa ; cognate with dip and deep (q. v.).] IMG:content-0259.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0260.png:[blocks in formation] A. Ordinary Language : I. Literally : IMG:content-0261.png:[blocks in formation] *3. To sink, to penetrate. 4. To seek for by diving. "The knave deserves it when he tempts the main, Where Folly fights for kings, or dives for gain." Pope: E ay on Man, iv. 153, 154. II. Figuratively : 1. To penetrate, to sink, to enter deeply. " Dive , thoughts, down to my soul." Shakesp.: Richard III ., 1. 1. 2. Te descend quickly; as, He dived into the IMG:content-0262.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0263.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To drown, to overwhelm. "Louerd ne thaue thu that storm me duue . "- Old Eng . through. Homilies, ii. 43. To dive into : To explore, to investigate, to pry For the difference between to dive and to plunge , 2. Fig .: To diverge, to branch off. "Divaricated representatives of a single tongue." - see PLUNGE; for that between to dive into and to Whitney: Life and Growth of Language, ch. ix. IMG:content-0264.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0265.png:[blocks in formation] divergement II. Figuratively : 1. To tend or incline in different directions. "Soon their paths diverged widely." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. vii. 2. To vary from a typical or normal form or state. 3. To vary from the truth.