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Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.

Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

To divide into plots or parts; to apportion. Milton.

To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

ion or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.

The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries. Blackstone.

Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.

eight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.

To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.

of a curve; called a principal axis, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the minor ax…

One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

, Divided into bars; -- said of the field.

A warlike South African people of the Bantu stock, divided into many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

A division of an army; a battalion. [Obs.] The king divided his army into three battles. Bacon. The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action. Robertson.

ambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.

Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

To divide into two branches.