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Discordance or diversity of form; unlikeness in form. Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies. S. Clarke.

ch anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.

To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle. Bp. Hall.

To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.

To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] Feltham.

To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

To divest of a mask. Shak.

Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.

Act of disporting; diversion; play. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To divest of reality; to make uncertain. [Obs.] Udall.

To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality. [Obs.] The dissent of the metals. Bacon.

To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose. I have tried what is possible to dissuade him. Mad. D' Arblay.

Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. -- n.

Marked; variegated. [Obs.] The which [place] was dight With divers flowers distinct with rare delight. Spenser.

One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity. Sir T. Browne.

That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot.

To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.