Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
divaricate , a.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective spread-out,
divergent , especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
divaricate .
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Examples
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Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans.
Ulysses 2003
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I now, in this hasty, feeble, and divaricated biographical sketch, approach the great and favourite work of my admired friend, _The
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 Various
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Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The talk itself was far more desultory, and in consequence of questions, objections, and explanations, divaricated much from the comparatively direct line I have endeavoured to give it here.
Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864
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SWEET HERITAGE: Sakotis, a divaricated pie, is probably the most delicious Lithuanian heritage.
News from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Times. 2009
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