Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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†DIVIDUAL, adj. Particular, distinct; exact, precise. Also devidual. Obs. in this sense in Eng. since 18th cent.Sc. 1836 Blackwood's Mag. (Oct.) 536:
A union of the mind's dividual acts.Edb. 1828 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch (1839) xx.:
Two days after . . . in came little Benjie . . . just at the dividual moment of time my wife and me were jeering at one other.Arg. 1882 Argyllsh. Herald (3 June):
Gae wa ben the hoose this devidual moment.Ayr. 1890 J. Service Notandums 27:
Juist at that 'dividual moment, a terr'ble hullabaloo got up.Rxb. 1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (1878) 160:
The Seasons . . . Come and go with sweet dividual change.
