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Different in kind or species; diverse. [Obs.] Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9.

ferent; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning.

In different ways; differently; variously. "Diversely interpreted." Bacon. How diversely love doth his pageants play. Spenser.

The quality of being diverse.

The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. Earle.

Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle.

State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation. Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. Adventurer.

Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.

One who, or that which, diversifies.

Of a different form; of varied forms.

To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects. Separated and diversified on from another. Locke. Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor.

Speaking in different ways. [R.]

The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

erence; dissimilitude; unlikeness. They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. South.

Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).

Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing. [Obs.]

The actors in a drama or play.

The state of being older; seniority. "Paternity an eldership." Sir W. Raleigh.

Standing out of, or rising above, water. Gray.

The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same. Knatchbull.