Meaning of divellent | Babel Free

Definitions

Causing to break up or separate

obsolete

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Examples

“divellent energies”

“If we consider⟳ that the aggregation of rocks and minerals, whether we regard it as a fruit of chemical or mechanical actions, is no otherwise fixed or stable, than as the forces which tend⟳ to keep⟳ them united are superior to those which from all sides strive to separate⟳ them, we shall be prepared to comprehend how the variations of these con stringent and divellent forces, according to heat, moisture, new elementary combinations, &c., bring⟳ a silent but sure and often rapid decay on all the structures of man”

“This great and unprecedented elongation of the nucleus is a most remarkable phenomenon. If it had occurred at or near the time of perihelion passage, it might have⟳ been naturally attributed to the divellent action of the sun's attraction; but it is a little difficult to see⟳ why the thing should have⟳ pulled out and come⟳ to pieces in such a way after getting safely by the crisis.”

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