diverticle

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But this curious note seeming fitter to have been plac’d in our chapter of Pruning, (upon which this learned gentleman has given us his experience) I beg pardon for this diverticle, and return to my subject.

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  1. A turning; a byway. The diverticles and blind by-paths which sophistry and deceit are wont to tread. Hales, Golden Remains, p. 12.
  2. In anatomy, a diverticulum. [Rare.]

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  • But this curious note seeming fitter to have been plac’d in our chapter of Pruning, (upon which this learned gentleman has given us his experience) I beg pardon for this diverticle, and return to my subject. —  Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
 

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  1. from Latin diverticulum, more correctly deverticulum, old form devorticulum, a byway, a digression, an inn, from devertcre, devortere, turn away, turn aside, from de, away, + vertere, vortere, turn.
 

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