Chapter Divided to Divorce of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

6. The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology.

Divinity is essentially the first of the professions.

Coleridge.

Case divinity, casuistry.

Divinization
(Div`i*ni*za"tion) n. A making divine. M. Arnold.

Divinize
(Div"i*nize) v. t. To invest with a divine character; to deify. [R.] M. Arnold.

Man had divinized all those objects of awe.

Milman.

Divisibility
(Di*vis`i*bil"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. divisibilité.] The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.

Divisibility . . . is a primary attribute of matter.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Divisible
(Di*vis"i*ble) a. [L. divisibilis, fr. dividere: cf. F. divisible. See Divide.] Capable of being divided or separated.

Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Divisible contract (Law), a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other. — Divisible offense (Law), an offense containing a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can be a conviction.

— Di*vis"i*ble*ness, n. — Di*vis"i*bly, adv.

Divisible
(Di*vis"i*ble), n. A divisible substance. Glanvill.

Division
(Di*vi"sion) n. [F. division, L. divisio, from dividere. See Divide.]

1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

I was overlooked in the division of the spoil.

Gibbon.

2. That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

3. The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

Communities and divisions of men.

Addison.

4. Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.

There was a division among the people.

John vii. 43.

5. Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. Chaucer.

I will put a division between my people and thy people.

Ex. viii. 23.

6. Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.

The motion passed without a division.

Macaulay.