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adjective

Divers adj.

Different in kind or species; diverse. (Obs.) "Every sect of them hath a divers posture." "Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds."

Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally. "Divers of Antonio's creditors." Note: Divers is now limited to the plural; as, divers ways (not divers way). Besides plurality it ordinarily implies variety of kind.

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"Divers" Quotes from Famous Books

... the moon was much paler on the one side than on the other. And after he saw a bird of two colours, and by that bird stood two beasts, which fed that little bird with their heat. And after that came more beasts, and bowing their breasts toward the bird, went their way. Then came there divers birds that sung sweetly and pleasantly: ...

— Mediaeval Tales • Various

... always you do—and where is the answer to anything except too deep down in the heart for even the pearl-divers? But understand ... what you do not quite ... that I did not mistake you as far even as you say here and even 'for a moment.' I did not write any of that letter in a 'doubt' of you—not a word.... I was simply looking back in it on my own states ...

— The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 • Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

... wended their way towards the fashionable part of the city, looking in at the various shop-windows as they went. Numberless were the great bargains they saw there displayed, and divers were the discussions they held respecting them. "Oh, isn't that a pretty calico, mother, ...

— The Garies and Their Friends • Frank J. Webb

... her money, and kept his obligations unto her. And in the space of one half-year, so mightily wrought God's Spirit with him, that of a great Papist he became as fervent a Gospeller; and going into Lancashire unto his father, he took with him divers good books, and there bestowed them, so that his father and others began to taste of the gospel, and to leave their idolatry and superstition: and at last his father, seeing the good reformation wrought in this his son, gave him fifty pounds to ...

— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt

... commander's absence the men had gone through divers works in order to make the ship fit to avoid the pressure of the ice-fields. Pen, Clifton, Gripper, Bolton, and Simpson were occupied in this laborious work; the stoker and the two engineers were even obliged to come to ...

— The English at the North Pole - Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne

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