C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary, divest

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

alphabetic letter:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

daff - dawning:

day - declined:

decoct: - delivery:

Delphos: - descant

descend: - dewberry:

dewlap: - directive:

directly - disfurnish:

disgest, -gestion: - disposed:

disposition - disvouch

dive-dapper: - dormouse:

door particulars:

dotage: - drollery:

drone: - dwindle

view as XML

divest (spelling of the earlier ‘devest’, not recorded earlier than F1, i.e. 1623)

1. intr. to undress Oth. II. iii. 183 (Qq Ff “Devesting”).

2. to strip or dispossess oneself (“of”) H5 II. iv. 78 (Ff “devest”), Lr. I. i. 51 (Ff “divest”).

A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

This text was converted to electronic form by professional data entry and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.

view as XML