Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating, pertaining to, or used in diversion: as, diversional contrivances.
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Examples
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With all the diversional routes that we've had to take to get people off the major arteries to avoid crashes and we're having to adapt to each one of those detours.
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The games were partly, sometimes wholly, diversional, but generally they were in large part divinatory, and thus reflected the hazardous occupations and low culture-status of the people.
The Siouan Indians 1882
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So the sports of the Siouan Indians were both diversional and divinatory, and the latter were highly organized in a manner reflecting the environment of the tribes, their culture-status, their belief, and especially their disposition toward bloodshed; for their most characteristic ceremonials were connected, genetically if not immediately, with warfare and the chase.
The Siouan Indians 1882
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Among the young, the gambols, races, and other sports were chiefly or wholly diversional, and commonly mimicked the avocations of the adults.
The Siouan Indians 1882
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The Neo Cons and their Parrots think they are using diversional psychological tactics, but in reality they are only triggering True memories, and contradictory thoughts, by the majority of Americans.
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The Neo Cons and their Parrots think they are using diversional psychological tactics, but in reality they are only triggering True memories, and contradictory thoughts, by the majority of Americans.
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This is one of a series of DVDs designed by Fran West specifically at the request of, and for use by, diversional/recreation therapists and leisure and lifestyle coordinators, to connect people with past lifestyles, bring back memories and provide hours of enjoyment.
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The Neo Cons and their Parrots think they are using diversional psychological tactics, but in reality they are only triggering True memories, and contradictory thoughts, by the majority of Americans.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Bill Moyers, Thomas Frank, Bill Moyers Journal 2010
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This is one of a series of DVDs designed by Fran West specifically at the request of, and for use by, diversional/recreation therapists and leisure and lifestyle coordinators, to connect people with past lifestyles, bring back memories and provide hours of enjoyment.
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This is one of a series of DVDs designed by Fran West specifically at the request of, and for use by, diversional/recreation therapists and leisure and lifestyle coordinators, to connect people with past lifestyles, bring back memories and provide hours of enjoyment.
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