Word Meanings - DIVARICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

apart; di- = dis- + varicare to straddle, fr. varicus straddling, fr. 1. To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork. 2. To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVARICATE)

• Deviate
• Digress
• wander
• swerve
• deflect
• err
• sway
• depart
• divaricate
• diverge
• Swerve
• stray
• bend
• incline
• trend

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIVARICATE)

• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline

Related words: (words related to DIVARICATE)

• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• DIVARICATELY
  With divarication.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• ASCENDIBLE
  Capable of being ascended; climbable.
• DIGRESSIONAL
  Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject. T. Warton.
• WANDERINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• DETERRATION
  The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. Woodward.
• ASCENDING
  Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude , the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line , the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• DETERMINIST
  One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
• INCLINED
  Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
• DETERMINISM
  The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.
• DEPART
  distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; pref. dé- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. 1. To part; to divide; to separate. Shak. 2. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from
• DEFLECTABLE
  Capable of being deflected.
• INDISPOSE
  1. To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify. 2. To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat. Shak. It made him rather indisposed than sick. Walton. 3. To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• ASTRAY
  Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
• UNDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
• PREINDISPOSE
  To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.
• INDETERMINATE
  Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. Paley. Indeterminate analysis , that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems. -- Indeterminate