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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

... many works of divers kinds Your muse to tread th' Aruncan path designs: 'Tis hard to write but Satires in these days, And yet to write good Satires merits praise: . . . . . . So old Petronius Arbiter appli'd Corsives unto the age he did deride: ...

— The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 • Sebastian Brandt

... so much time past since they were Printed, that methinks, I hear some of you say I wish Mrs. Wolley would put forth some New Experiments and to say the Truth, I have been importun'd by divers of my Friends and Acquaintance to ...

— The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet • Hannah Wolley

... particularly the latter, paid me some high compliments in the course of their speeches, as you may have seen in the papers, and Lords Eldon and Harrowby answered me. I have had many marvellous eulogies repeated to me since, in person and by proxy, from divers persons ministerial—yea, ministerial!—as well as oppositionists; of them I shall only mention Sir F. Burdett. He says it is the best speech by a lord since the 'Lord knows when,' probably from a fellow-feeling in the sentiments. Lord H. tells me I shall beat them ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. II - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... fifty francs apiece; a musical clock picked up at Genoa for twelve louis; a patent boot-jack and an ebony billiard cue; a Paduan violin; two statuettes of more fidelity than modesty, to be sold pound for pound at the current value of bronze; divers pipes—articles of which Mr. Simp had earned the title of connoisseur, by investing several hundred dollars annually—a gutta-percha self-adjusting dog-muzzle, the dog attached to which had been seized by H. M. Napoleon III. in ...

— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend

... under water depends very much upon his own strength and experience, the steady care with which the air-pump is managed, and other circumstances. M. Frendenberg states that in the repair of the well in the Scharley zinc mines, in Silesia, two divers descended to a depth of eighty-five feet, remaining down for periods varying from fifteen minutes to two hours. Siebe, another authority on the subject, relates that in removing the cargo of the ...

— Harper's Young People, April 20, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

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