different between diriment vs dirempt

English

Etymology

Latin dirim?ns (“separating”).

Adjective

diriment (not comparable)

1. (religion, of an impediment to marriage) Serving to invalidate an attempted marriage.

See also

• impedient

Latin

Verb

diriment

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dirim?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?r?mpt?, IPA^(key): /d????mpt/

Etymology 1

From the Latin diremptus (“separated, divided”), the past participle of dirim? (“I separate, divide”), formed as dir- (prevocalic variant of dis- (“apart, asunder”)) + em? (“I take”); compare dirempt².

Adjective

dirempt (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, past participial) Distinct; separate; secrete; divided.
   • 1575, John Stow, Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles

     Tacitus, that Bobotria & Blota haue ?undry pa??ages into the sea and are clerely dirempt one from the other

Synonyms

• dirempted (past participial adjective)

Etymology 2

From the Latin *dirempt?, frequentative of dirim?.

Verb

dirempt (third-person singular simple present dirempts, present participle dirempting, simple past and past participle dirempted)

1. (transitive, principally in philosophy) To separate; to divide; to break off.

Derived terms

• dirempted (past participial adjective)
• diremption

Related terms

• diriment

References

• “†di?rempt, ppl. a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
• OED2 opere citato, “di?rempt, v.”