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Subdivine vs Subdivide - What's the difference?

subdivine | subdivide |

As an adjective subdivine

is partaking of divinity; divine in a partial or lower degree.

As a verb subdivide is

to divide into smaller sections.

subdivine

English

Adjective

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  • Partaking of divinity; divine in a partial or lower degree.
    • (Bishop Hall)
    (Webster 1913)

    subdivide

    English

    Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To divide into smaller sections.
  • # (real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.
  • This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it .
  • #* 1993 , Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town , National Park Service, 3:
  • Several local families recorded plots of land as additions to the town's territory and subdivided them into house lots.
  • (ambitransitive) To divide divisions into smaller divisions
  • * Dryden
    • The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.