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(1):

(n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.

(2):

(n.) To make away; to put away.

(3):

(n.) To separate or disunite; to sunder.

(4):

(n.) To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.

(5):

(n.) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband - divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."

(6):

(n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

(7):

(n.) Separation; disunion of things closely united.

(8):

(n.) That which separates.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Divorce'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/divorce.html. 1828.
 
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