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divellent

divellent adjective: causing to break up or separate.

Adjective

divellent (comparative more divellent, superlative most divellent)

  1. (obsolete) Causing to break up or separate
    • divellent energies
    • If we consider that the aggregation of rocks and minerals, whether we regard it as a fruit of chemical or mechanical actions, is no otherwise fixed or stable, than as the forces which tend to keep them united are superior to those which from all sides strive to separate them, we shall be prepared...1852, John Phillips, A Treatise on Geology

Forms of divellent

comparativemore divellent
superlativemost divellent

Origin of divellent

From Latin divellens.

Questions about divellent

What does divellent mean?
Divellent means causing to break up or separate.
What part of speech is divellent?
Divellent is an adjective.

Words near divellent in the dictionary

  1. Divelbiss
  2. Divelbisses
  3. Diveley
  4. Diveleys
  5. divell
  6. divellent
  7. divellicate
  8. divellicated
  9. divellicates
  10. divellicating
  11. divels

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