bisect

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Next you shall make the letter C in its own square thus: Bisect the square a. b. c. d. by the horizontal line e. f. and in it let i. be the middle point.

From Of the Just Shaping of Letters by D?rer, Albrecht

Bisect this Square, by two lines drawn from the Corners.

From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.

Bisect these distances, and these again, till you have a very close row of tacks, as in Fig.

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 by Elverson, James

Bisect the chord PB at G, and draw through G a line perpendicular to PB, intersecting BB′ in O. An arc with centre O and radius OB forms part of a curve.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

Bisect this line in O, and with O as a center and AO as radius, describe the semi-circle ADB.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John