diversory meaning (obsolete): definition

diversory

noun

Etymology From Latin diversorium, deversorium (“an inn or lodging”).

Obsolete, Rare A wayside inn.

For slaughtering one , through many regions stray'd In my stall, as his diversory, stay'd.1614–1615, Homer, “The Fourteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

adj

Etymology From Latin diversorium, deversorium (“an inn or lodging”).

Tending to divert; causing diversion.