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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Divulge

Di·vulge′ (dĭ·vŭlj′), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divulged; p. pr. & vb. n. Divulging.] [F. divulguer, L. divulgare; di- = dis- + vulgare to spread among the people, from vulgus the common people. See Vulgar.] 1. To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; — said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.

Divulge not such a love as mine. Cowper.

2. To indicate publicly; to proclaim. [R.]

God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven. Milton.

3. To impart; to communicate.

Which would not be

To them [animals] made common and divulged. Milton.

Syn. — To publish; disclose; discover; uncover; reveal; communicate; impart; tell.

Di·vulge′, v. i. To become publicly known. [R.] "To keep it from divulging." Shak.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.