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

A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight.

Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

f transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.

The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.

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

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

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

A diversity of direction; detachment. [Obs.] His power went out in such distractions as Beguiled all species. Shak.

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

or truth; heterodoxy. Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From whence arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies by God abhor'd. Spenser. Deluded people! that do not consider that the greatest heresy in the world is a wicked life. Tillotson.

nt of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc. There is so great an inequality in the length of our legs and arms as makes it impossible for us to walk on all four. Ray. Not…

to be manifested and transmitted. Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried. Bacon. I must bring together All these extremes; and must remove all mediums. Denham.

Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold. There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of the meanest animal. Dr. H. More.

With great multiplicity and diversity; with variety of modes and relations.

Multiplied diversity.

The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing. Purchas.

om, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.

ressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered…

In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly (Math.), to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of two dependent quantities with regard to each other.…