devision

English

Noun

devision (countable and uncountable, plural devisions)

1. Obsolete spelling of division.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 310, column 1:

     One Michael Caſſio, a Florentine, / (A Fellow almoſt damn’d in a faire Wife) / That neuer ſet a Squadron in the Field, / Nor the deuiſion of a Battaile knowes

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• ovinised, visioned