diversed
diversed is the simple past and past participle of diverse.
Meaning of diverse
Verb
diverse (third-person singular simple present diverses, present participle diversing, simple past and past participle diversed)
- To make (something) different or varied in form or quality; to alter, to change, to vary.
- I Dyuerſe[,] I make difference⸝ Ie diuerſifie, prime coniu.1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan...
- To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) different or varied, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.
- The investors in the SPC [special purpose company] derive their return, and well as diversing their risk, from three factors.2001, Marcel Jeucken, “Sustainability, Markets and Banking Products”, in Sustainable Finance and Banking: The Financial Sector and the Future of the Planet, London; Sterling, Va.: Earthscan...
- To go a different route or way from someone else; to diverge, to separate.
- Then each to other vvell affectionate, / Friendſhip profeſſed vvith vnfained hart, / The Redcroſſe knight diuerſt, but forth rode Britomart.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 62, page 443
Questions about diversed
- What is diversed the simple past and past participle of?
- Diversed is the simple past and past participle of diverse.
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