The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Diverse \Di*verse"\, adv.
   In different directions; diversely.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Diverse \Di*verse"\, v. i.
   To turn aside. [Obs.]
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         The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart.
                                                  --Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Diverse \Di"verse\ (?; 277), a. [The same word as divers. See
   Divers.]
   1. Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
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            The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from
            its original import.                  --J. Edwards.
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            Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she.
                                                  --R. Browning.
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   2. Capable of various forms; multiform.
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            Eloquence is a great and diverse thing. --B. Jonson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

diverse
    adj 1: many and different; "tourist offices of divers
           nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents" [syn:
           divers(a), diverse]
    2: distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "celebrities as diverse as
       Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar
       and the cavy and the sloth" [syn: diverse, various]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

83 Moby Thesaurus words for "diverse":
   assorted, at odds, at variance, contradictory, contrary,
   contrasted, contrasting, contrastive, counter, departing,
   deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing,
   disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete,
   discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant,
   distant, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, divergent,
   diverging, divers, diversified, diversiform, hardly like,
   heterogeneous, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible,
   incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious,
   irreconcilable, many, many and various, miscellaneous, mixed,
   motley, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiplex, nonuniform,
   odd, of all sorts, off, offbeat, opposite, out, poles apart,
   poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several, sundry,
   unalike, unconformable, unequal, unidentical, unlike, unmatched,
   unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied, variegated,
   various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart