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Webster 1828 Edition


Divaricated

DIVARICATED

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Parted into two branches.

Definition 2024


divaricated

divaricated

English

Adjective

divaricated (comparative more divaricated, superlative most divaricated)

  1. spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem
    • 1922: The warm impress of her warm form. Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans. — James Joyce, Ulysses

Verb

divaricated

  1. simple past tense and past participle of divaricate