devide

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See also: dévidé and dévide

English

Verb

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  1. Obsolete form of divide.
    • 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I‎[1]:
      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[2], 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[3]:
      The greater circles are those which devide this earthly globe into equall halfes or Haemispheres.
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