Definition of "divarication" []

• The act of divaricating. (noun)
• The point at which branching occurs. (noun)
• A divergence of opinion. (noun)

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• "Furthermore, from the aorta and the great vein at the points of divarication there branch off other veins."
• "The other cause of my being averse from consulting with dumb women is, that to our signs they would make no answer at all, but suddenly fall backwards in a divarication posture, to intimate thereby unto us the reality of their consent to the supposed motion of our tacit demands."
• "It is just this situation, viz. when each of two opposites has both a good and a bad consequence opposite respectively to each other, that has been termed divarication."