Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Divided; separate; distinct.
  • Divisible; capable of being divided into parts: as, “a dividual essence in Truth,”
  • Divided; participated in; shared in common with others.
  • noun In arithmetic and algebra, one of the several parts of a dividend from which each separate figure or term of the quotient is found.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Separate, distinct.
  • adjective Divisible, divided.
  • adjective Shared, held in common (with others).

Etymologies

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From Latin dividuus.

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Examples

  • What happens then is that some aspect, or emination, of that celebrity makes an individual dividual.

    Tom Payne: Lady Gaga, Is it Possible You've Been Reading My Stuff? Tom Payne 2011

  • Now the universe is inhabited by in dividual beings; endowed generally with free will, allowing them to act out of harmony with the whole, to do as they will both deliberately and instinctively.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • Now the universe is inhabited by in dividual beings; endowed generally with free will, allowing them to act out of harmony with the whole, to do as they will both deliberately and instinctively.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • Now the universe is inhabited by in dividual beings; endowed generally with free will, allowing them to act out of harmony with the whole, to do as they will both deliberately and instinctively.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • Now the universe is inhabited by in dividual beings; endowed generally with free will, allowing them to act out of harmony with the whole, to do as they will both deliberately and instinctively.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • On the one hand, he posits that the “in-dividual,” as opposed to mere “individual,” phenomenon can be isolated as a discrete subject of our historical inquiry when we ascribe certain subjective values to the singular coherence and indivisibility that are responsible for its uniqueness.

    Asthmatic 2009

  • If so, an “in-dividual” historical event has to be reduced to an “individual” manifestation of the objective process of history, a conclusion that essentially implies that Rickert returned to the German Idealist faith in the meaningfulness of history and the objective validity of the diverse values to be found in history.

    Asthmatic 2009

  • Sources say that the accounts in question are not in Yeltsin's name, but rather are held by offshore companies or in the names of in-dividual businessmen, both Russian and foreign.

    The End Of An Era 2008

  • So that a man may say his religion is now no more within himself, but is become a dividual movable, and goes and comes near him, according as that good man frequents the house.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • So that a man may say his religion is now no more within himself, but is become a dividual movable, and goes and comes near him, according as that good man frequents the house.

    Areopagitica 2007

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