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English Dictionary: Dives by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dives \Di"ves\, n. [L., rich.]
      The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's
      parable of the [bd]Rich Man and Lazarus[b8] (--Luke xvi.
      19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.
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