diverb

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Definition of diverb

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noun

(obsolete)A proverb or set phrase.

“By this means you many define ex ungue leonem, as the diverb is, by his thumb alone the bigness of Hercules […]”

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noun

(obsolete)A proverb or set phrase.

“By this means you many define ex ungue leonem, as the diverb is, by his thumb alone the bigness of Hercules […]”
(obsolete, rhetoric)An antithesis.

“Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes.”

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Latin diverbium (“the colloquial part of a comedy, dialogue”).

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