Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DI-VORCE', v.t.

1. To dissolve the marriage contract, and thus to separate husband and wife.
2. To separate, as a married woman from the bed and board of her husband.
3. To separate or disunite things closely connected; to force asunder. – Hooker. Shak.
4. To take away; to put away. – Blackmore.