English

Verb

devide

1. Obsolete form of divide.
   • 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:

     Thei devide all their inhabiters into divers partes: and every parte thei name of the kinde of those weapons, that thei use in the warre.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, 1921 ed. edition:

     XXXVII His owne two hands the holy knots did knit, 325 That none but death for ever can devide; His owne two hands, for such a turne most fit, The housling fire[*] did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinckled wide; At which the bushy Teade a groome did light, 330 And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide, Where it should not be quenched day nor night, For feare of evill fates, but burnen ever bright.

   • 1630, William Pemble, A Briefe Introduction to Geography:

     The greater circles are those which devide this earthly globe into equall halfes or Haemispheres.