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marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony."

Capable of being divorced.

A person divorced.

Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce.

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce. Drummond.

A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.

to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to the bearer for goods or money. -- Bill of divorce, in the Jewish law, a writing given by the husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was dissolved. Jer. iii. 8. -- Bill of entry, a written account of goods entered at the customhouse, whether imported or inten…

done or planned in collusion. "Collusive and sophistical arguings." J. Trapp. "Collusive divorces." Strype.

ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. -- To be on short commons, to have small allowance of food. [Colloq.]

To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see. [R. & Obs.] "Divorces were not connived only, but with eye open allowed." Milton.

A form of divorce, among the ancient Romans, in which a cake was used. See Confarreation.

To divorce. [Obs.] And therefore . . . she ought to be disbanded. Milton.

To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

Divorceable. Milton.

Having power to divorce; tending to divorce. "This divorcive law." Milton.

fe, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Blackstone. Common of estovers. See under Common, n.

e (Law), a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead. -- Feme sole trader or merchant (Eng. Law), a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.

otstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use. And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. Cowper.