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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of divide

Etymologies

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divide + -eth

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Examples

  • [Greek: luei], 'divideth' or 'dissolveth,' instead of [Greek: mê homologei], 'confesseth not.'

    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

  • Above all things, order, and distribution, and singling out of parts, is the life of dispatch; so as the distribution be not too subtle: for he that doth not divide, will never enter well into business; and he that divideth too much, will never come out of it clearly.

    The Essays 2007

  • Well, the 1611 KJV, to be exact: When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.

    "Michael Mukasey... is absolutely correct... that the issue of 'waterboarding' cannot be decided in the abstract." Ann Althouse 2007

  • The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

    Last Things: Death and Judgment Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

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