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ves pain, vexation, or misery. They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. Matt. iv. 24.

winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country. Always hankering after the diversions of the town. Addison. Stunned with his giddy larum half the town. Pope.

To pass; to go; to move. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. Shak.

A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery. [Obs.] Divers appearances Such as these subtle tregetours play. Chaucer.

To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote. Therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David. 1 Chron. x. 14. God will make these evils the occasion of a greater good, by turning them to advantage in this world. Tillotson. Wh…

To divest of clothing; to strip. [Obs.] Donne.

To divest of attire; to undress.

To divest of the traits of a boy. [R.] Clarendon.

To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches. Shak.

To divest of flesh.

To make unlike a child; to divest of the characteristics of a child. Bp. Hall.

Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron.

To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

To divest or deprive of a cowl. Pope.

To divest of ornaments. Shak.

To divest of clothes; to strip.

To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.

To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.

To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room.

To disarm; to divest of armor. Holinshed.