divaricare

divaricare [CL] 1 to spread (legs) apart, straddle; b (intr.). devaricare, separare GlC D 90; rex [Dacie] ‥ pedes et crura sinuose ~ans, dum incautius unum pedem extendisset, e prora labitur Ailr. Ed. Conf. 749B; femora separando ~averat R. Cold. Cuthb. 20; Samson Mir. Edm. 8 (v. distrahere 1a); tam mulieres quam mares ~atis cruribus ‥ equitare solent Gir. TH III 26; to cruke, curvare ‥, ~are ‥, repandere CathA.  b tumoris multitudo pedes illi ~antes confederare conjungendo minime permittebat R. Cold. Cuthb. 103. 2 (? by assoc. w. varius) to vary, alter, diversify. ~are, diversum facere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 178; s1205 ingressus sum civitatem, occulte tamen, vestibus ~atis; et tamen in ipso ingressu ‥ a quibusdam ‥ cognitus sum Chr. Evesham 144; s1266 venit in Angliam dux de Brundewico, cum magna familia variisque indumentis ~ata Ann. Lond. 76; conditor orbis ‥ / ‥ / res animare novas, varias formare figuras / et speciebus eas divăricare parat Gower VC II 612 (cf. ib. VII 474: hec quoque nec perstant que nos elementa vocamus; / immo gerunt varias divăricata vices).