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Diurna
- - A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.
Divali
- unknown - In Hinduism, a five-day religious festival in autumn. Also called "festival of lights"
Divans
- noun - a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author)
- a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall)
- a Muslim council chamber or law court
- a Muslim council of state
Divast
- - Devastated; laid waste.
Diverb
- - A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb.
Divers
- noun - large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
- many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents"
- someone who dives (into water)
- someone who works underwater
Divert
- verb - occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies"
- send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
- turn aside; turn away from
- withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions
Divest
- verb - deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
- reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa"
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
- take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
Divide
- noun - a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
- come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
- force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
- make a division or separation
- perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
- separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
Divine
- adjective - a clergyman or other person in religious orders
- appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
- being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"-J.G.Saxe
- devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy"
- emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review
- perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
- resulting from