dividual

WOTD – 12 October 2010    

English

Etymology

From Latin dividuus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪˈvɪdʒuəl/

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Adjective

dividual (not comparable)

1. Separate, distinct.
2. Divisible, divided.
   • 1895, George MacDonald, Lilith^[1]:

     She began to moan, and sigh deep sighs, then murmur as holding colloquy with a dividual self: her queendom was no longer whole; it was divided against itself.

3. Shared, held in common (with others).

Quotations

1. • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica^[2]:

     So that a man may say his religion is now no more within himself, but is become a dividual movable, and goes and comes near him, according as that good man frequents the house.

Translations

separate, distinct

• Finnish: erillinen (fi), erityinen (fi)

• Russian: отдельный (ru) (otdelʹnyj)