Divers vs Dimers - What's the difference?
divers | dimers |
, in the sense of various or assorted.
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, passage= Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
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As nouns the difference between divers and dimers
is that divers is plural of lang=en while dimers is plural of dimer.As an adjective divers
is obsolete spelling of lang=en, in the sense of various or assorted.divers
English
Etymology 1
See (diver)Noun
(head)Etymology 2
See (diverse)Adjective
(en adjective)- And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
- Shortly after this I had to go out of town. Divers sound sportsmen had invited me to pay visits to their country places, and it wasn't for several months that I settled down in the city again.