Divorce /(?)/

1. A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. (Law)
2. The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
3. Separation; disunion of things closely united.

   To make divorce of their incorporate league.

4. That which separates. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Divorced; p. pr. & vb. n. Divorcing

1. To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.
2. To separate or disunite; to sunder.

   It [a word] was divorced from its old sense.

3. To make away; to put away.

   Nothing but death Shall e'er divorce my dignities.