Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving to divert.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing.
- noun Obs. or R. A wayside inn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, rare A
wayside inn . - adjective Tending to
divert ; causingdiversion .
Etymologies
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Latin diversorium, deversorium, an inn or lodging.
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Examples
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The continuity was frequently broken in upon by diversory suppositions.
The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901
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"'Twas when we reached the diversory [inn] last afore Stafford, Dame
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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