diversory

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noun

A wayside inn.

OriginLatin diversorium →
Scrabble 16
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Meanings

noundiversory (plural diversories)

plural diversories

  1. obsoleterareA wayside inn.

    For slaughtering one , through many regions stray'd In my stall, as his diversory, stay'd.

    1614–1615, Homer, “The Fourteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC
adjectivediversory (comparative more diversory, superlative most diversory)

comparative more diversory · superlative most diversory

  1. Tending to divert; causing diversion.

Origin

  1. Latindiversorium
  2. Englishdiversory

From Latin diversorium, deversorium (“an inn or lodging”).

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APA

diversory. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diversory

MLA

“diversory.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diversory. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diversory,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diversory.

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