Definition of "divellent" []

• Drawing asunder (adjective)

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• "They may all, however, have been separated from one original mass by the divellent action of the sun at close quarters."
• "They result, Professor Kirkwood [1029] believed, from the divellent action of"
• "_Danville Quarterly Review_ for December, 1861, he argued, from the observed division of Biela, and other less noted instances of the same kind, that the sun exercises a "divellent influence" on the nuclei of comets, which may be presumed to continue its action until their corporate existence (so to speak) ends in complete pulverisation."