An archaic or obsolete form of divide; to separate or split apart.
From Old French 'divider,' from Latin 'dividere' (dis- + videre, to see, thus to distinguish or separate). An older conjugation form.
This archaic form takes us back to Middle English texts where 'divid' appears before it evolved into the modern 'divide'—it's a linguistic fossil showing how even such common words constantly shift their shapes.
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