DIVINlPOTENT, adj. [from the Lat. divinus, divine, andpotens, able.] Divinely powerful, powerful in divine things. Scott. DI VINITY,/ [divinite, Fr. from divinitas, Lat.] Participation of the nature and excellence of God ; deity ; godhead.—When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. StiUingfleet.—God; the Deity j the Supreme Being; the Cause of causes: Tis the* Divinity that stirs within us, Tis Heavn itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Addifin. False god : Vain idols, deities that neer before • In Israels lands had fixd their dire abodes, Beastly divinities, mi droves of gods. Prior. Celestial being.—God doubtless can govern this machine he could create, by more direct and easy methods thnn employing these subservient divinities. Cheync.—The science of divine things ; theology: Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all admiring, with an inward wifli You would desire the king were made a prelate. Shahesp. Something supernatural.—They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Shakes. ■ DIVISA,/. an ancient term in law, of various significations; sometimes it is used for a device, award, or decree; sometimes for devise of a portion or parcel of lands, &c. by will; and sometimes it is taken for the bounds or limits of division of a parish or farm, Sec. as divisas perambulare, to walk the bounds of a parish ; in which sense it has been extended to the division between counties, and given name to towns, as to the Devises, a town in Wiltshire, situate on the confines, the division, of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms. Cowel. DIVISIBLE, a./j. Idivisibilis, Lat.] Capable of being divided into parts; discerptiblc ; separable.—When we frame in our minds any notion of matter, we conceive nothing else but extension and bulk, which is impenetrable, or divisible and passive. Bentley. DIVISIBILITY,/. [divifitiliU, Fr.] A property in quantity, body, or extension, by which it becomes separable into parts. Such divisibility is infinite, if not actually, at least potentially ; for no part can be conceived so small, but another may be conceived still smaller; for every part of matter must have some finite extension, and that extension may be bisected, or otherwise divided ; for the same reason, these parts may be divided again, and so on without end. We are not here contending for the possibility of an actual division 1* itfinitum: it is only asserted, that however (mall a body i.
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