Consequently most writers of the classical period subdivide the proof proper into probatio, or affirmative proof, and refutatio, or refutation.

"You want to place me in contradiction with myself, and make me confess that I accept Moineaud's seven children and need them, whereas I, with my fixed determination to rest content with an only son, suppress, as it were, a family in order that I may not have to subdivide my estate.

It is crowded with blood-vessels, which divide and subdivide very minutely before they penetrate the brain.

In brief, the spinal nerves divide and subdivide, to reach with their twigs all parts of the body, and provide every tissue with a nerve center, a station from which messages may be sent to the brain.

He can occasionally get to a fifth point, and then subdivide it, before giving that final "word of advice" which parsons are so enamoured of; but he never branches out beyond this stage.

They would divide and subdivide until society was resolved into its original elements.

Subdivide it into sections and number them in accordance with the U.S. survey.

Subdivide a section into forties, and describe each forty.

They will measure ground by geometry, set down limits, divide and subdivide, but cannot yet prescribe quantum homini satis, or keep within compass of reason and discretion.

From ignorance comes vice, from error heresy, &c. But make how many kinds you will, divide and subdivide, few men are free, or that do not impinge on some one kind or other.

The Thomists subdivide them into eleven, six in the coveting, and five in the invading.

The long delay and inaction worked sadly upon Burke's active and impatient temperament, and he suddenly announced his intention to subdivide his party and, with three men, to start across the belt of unknown country a distance of five hundred miles at the furthest that separated him from Gregory's track round the Gulf.

"This land resembles a leaf," thought the boy, "for it's as green as a leaf, and the valleys subdivide it in about the same way as the veins of a leaf are foliated.

The Germans also subdivide by colour, and again for show purposes by weight.

Fifth: Since the high skill of men is attained through repetition of operations, the management must subdivide the work into classes in which each man can become highly proficient.

But in the case of the Natica this regular segmentation changes its character, and at a certain period, in a more or less advanced stage of the segmentation, according to the species, each portion of the yolk assumes an individuality of its own, and, instead of uniting again with the rest, begins to subdivide for itself.

The shaft is caused to rotate, and the blades divide and subdivide the material, forcing it always downward, so that it at last escapes at the bottom of the pug mill in a continuous stream of moist, well worked up clay, issuing with some force.

"Some grammarians subdivide vowels into the simple and the compound.

"Some grammarians subdivide the vowels into simple and compound.

They swim one against another, close, compact, forming strata that subdivide and float out to sea.

Divide and subdivide a difficult process, until your steps are so short that the pupil can easily take them.

If so, the teacher will subdivide the question on the principle we are explaining, so as to make the steps such that the pupils can take them.

In applying this method, however, the teacher should be very careful not to subdivide too much.

The similarity of the Indian languages points without doubt to a common origin, while their variety and immense number are indications of a high antiquity; for who can estimate the succession of years necessary to subdivide a common tongue into so many languages, and to give birth out of a savage or nomadic life to a civilization like that of the Aztecs?

Originally, and until 1896, the house stood on the opposite side of the street; the owner was about to demolish it to subdivide the land, when the Historical Society intervened and purchased it.