the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Division
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
(2):
(n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
(3):
(n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.
(4):
(n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.
(5):
(n.) A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.
(6):
(n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
(7):
(n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
(8):
(n.) Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
(9):
(n.) Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.
(10):
(n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
(11):
(n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.
(12):
(n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
(13):
(n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.
(14):
(n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.
(15):
(n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Division'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/division.html. 1828.
