devide

Obsolete form of divide.

Verb

  1. Obsolete form of divide.
    • Thei devide all their inhabiters into divers partes: and every parte thei name of the kinde of those weapons, that thei use in the warre. - 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:
    • XXXVII His owne two hands the holy knots did knit, 325 That none but death for ever can devide; His owne two hands, for such a turne most fit, The housling fire[*] did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon...
    • The greater circles are those which devide this earthly globe into equall halfes or Haemispheres. - 1630, William Pemble, A Briefe Introduction to Geography:

Forms

devides deviding devided