dividual

di•vid•u•al (dih-VIJ-oo-uhl)  adj

Definition:
1. divisible or divided
2. separate; distinct
3. distributed; shared
Origin:
from Latin from dividuus "divisible," from dividere "divide"

Related:
Synonyms: divisible
Antonym: individual, from in- "not" + dividuus "divisible"
Related Words: divide, individual

Sentence Examples:
• Then would the memory of past days return to me; yet I had the same trust in Heaven as I had before, seeing that they were the dividual stars above my head which I used to glour up at in wonder at Dalkeith--pleasant Dalkeith! - The Life of Mansie Wauch, David Macbeth Moir

• The soul of Lilith lay naked to the torture of pure interpenetrating inward light. She began to moan, and sigh deep sighs, then murmur as holding colloquy with a dividual self: her queendom was no longer whole; it was divided against itself. - Lilith, George MacDonald

• But you know that I honour you, and that I love whom I honour. Love and esteem with me have no dividual being; and wherever this is not the case, I suspect there must be some lurking moral superstition which nature gets the better of; and that the real meaning of the phrase "I love him though I cannot esteem him," is--I esteem him, but not according to my system of esteem. - Biographia Epistolaris, Samual Taylor Coleridge

Sources: Dictionary.com, Online Etymology

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fissiparous

fis•sip•ar•ous (fi-SIP-er-uhs)  adj

Definition:
1. tending to break up into parts or break away from a main body; factious
2. reproducing by biological fission
3. causing division or fragmenting something

fissiparousness noun;  fissiparously adverb

Origin:
1874; Latin fissus, past participle of findere + English -parous

Related:
Synonyms: bivious
Related Words: fission, fissure, fissile

Sentence Examples:
• In the present educational chaos, school sixth forms are quite bewilderingly fissiparous.  Every one is a "specialist" of some sort or other; specialism means "private work," and if private work enables the gifted few to escape into self-education from the hampering attentions of the form master, it gives the rest a terrible training in the habits of time-wasting and evasion. -The School and the World. Victor Gollancz and David Somervell

• The next point we have to observe is, that in all cases where a cell or a Protozoön multiplies by way of fissiparous division, the process begins in the nucleus. -Darwin, and After Darwin, George John Romanes

• Today Protestant leaders are concerned about their fissiparous tendencies. Latin America already has more than 200 religious organizations, and the Brazilian Methodists are facing the threat of a schism. -Protestants: Conversion in Latin America, Time, 1965

The Storyline
Most workplaces tend to be fissiparous, with various cliques and factions forming. This one was not. The workforce was a unified force. Now only to put that to good end.

Sources: Wordnik, Merriam-Webster

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