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Definition of Divulsive
1. a. Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting.
Definition of Divulsive
1. Adjective. Tending to tear or pull apart. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Divulsive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divulsive
Literary usage of Divulsive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1921)
"But in gunshot wounds, including those due to bullets, shrapnel, high-explosive
shells, and other weapons, the explosive or divulsive effects play a part. ..."
2. All Ireland by Standish O'Grady (1898)
"... latter end of January the combining Irish forces fell asunder in order to
pursue, with more diligence, each its own small and divulsive class purposes, ..."
3. Emergency surgery by John William Sluss (1917)
"In all wounds which completely traverse the tissues, this divulsive explosive
force is present to a greater or lesser extent and the effect produced is ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"... that the result of becoming the rulers of Constantinople might well be to add
most formidably to those divulsive forces which are already at work in it. ..."
5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"The former workings of a divulsive power of terrific energy is betrayed, indeed,
all over this region. In the immediate vicinity of the Grand Tower, ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Whereby the over-sweet moon of honey changes itself into long years of vinegar:
perhaps divulsive vinegar, like Hannibal's. Shall we say, then, ..."
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