Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Diverse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Diverse \Di"verse\ (?; 277), a. [The same word as divers. See
{Divers}.]
1. Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from
its original import. --J. Edwards.
Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she.
--R. Browning.
2. Capable of various forms; multiform.
Eloquence is a great and diverse thing. --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Diverse \Di*verse"\, adv.
In different directions; diversely.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Diverse \Di*verse"\, v. i.
To turn aside. [Obs.]
The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart.
--Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
diverse
adj 1: many and different; "tourist offices of divers
nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents" [syn: {divers(a)}]
2: distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "diverse parts of the
country"; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob
Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and
the sloth" [syn: {various}]
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