Definition of "divaricated" []

• Spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of divaricate. (verb)

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• "I now, in this hasty, feeble, and divaricated biographical sketch, approach the great and favourite work of my admired friend, _The"
• "Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans."
• "The talk itself was far more desultory, and in consequence of questions, objections, and explanations, divaricated much from the comparatively direct line I have endeavoured to give it here."