DIVORCE Copy link • DIVORCEv. matrimonium or nuptias dirimere: to divorce a wife, divortium facere cum uxore; repudium remittere uxori; uxorem repudiare; uxorem matrimonio exigere (Vid: Ruhnken, Ter. Hec., 2, 1, 45); uxorem e matrimonio dimittere (or, if by force, expellere, to turn her out of doors): to be divorced, separari coenis et cubilibus discerni (to be separated a mensa et toro, after Tac., Hist., 5, 5, 2). FIG., To separate forcibly, Vid: To DIVIDE or To SEPARATE.