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   Divide , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divided; p. pr. & vb. n. Dividing.] [L. dividere, divisum; di- = dis- + root signifying to part; cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow.  Cf. Device, Devise.]
   To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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   Divide the living child in two.
   1 Kings iii. 25.
   
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   To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.
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   Let it divide the waters from the waters.
   Gen. i. 6.
   
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   To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.
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   True justice unto people to divide.
   Spenser.
   
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   Ye shall divide the land by lot.
   Num. xxxiii. 54.
   
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   To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
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   If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand.
   Mark iii. 24.
   
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   Every family became now divided within itself.
   Prescott.
   
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   To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.
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   (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division.
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   (Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
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   (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
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   (Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [Obs.]
   Spenser.
   Syn. -- To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share.
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   Divide, v. i.
   To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
   Milton.
   
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   The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups.
   J. Peile.
   
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   To cause separation; to disunite.
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   A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest.
   Bancroft.
   
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   To break friendship; to fall out.
   Shak.
   
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   To have a share; to partake.
   Shak.
   
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   To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
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   The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
   Gibbon.
   
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   Divide, n. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting.  A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide.
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   Watershed , n. [Cf. G. wasserscheide; wasser water + scheide a place where two things separate, fr. scheiden to separate.]
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   The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
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   The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin; -- called also divide and water parting.
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   a point in time marking an important transition between two situations, or phases of an activity; a turning point.
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