dividual
Americanadjective
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divisible or divided.
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separate; distinct.
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distributed; shared.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of dividual
First recorded in 1590–1600; from Latin dīvidu(us) “divided, divisible,” equivalent to dīvid(ere) “to divide, separate” + -uus adjective suffix; see divide, -al 1
Example Sentences
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Partly the difficulty lies in trying to extrapolate a general statement of American performance in Viet Nam from the in dividual American stories that Cimino presents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bitterly an in dividual worker would complain: "Four days of the week my friends find that I am not at home and on the fifth day I find that they are not at home."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mason has an unwavering bead on the relationship between instincts and in dividual longings.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the moment, surely, it can be answered decisively, for better or worse, only by each in dividual.
From Time Magazine Archive
So that a man may say his religion is now 82no more within himself, but is become a dividual movable, and goes and comes near him according as that good man frequents the house.
From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett
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