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▪ I. tripartite, a. (n.)|traɪˈpɑːtaɪt, ˈtrɪpɑːtaɪt|
Also 5 trypartite, -tyte, 5–6 tripertite, -tyte.
[ad. L. tripartīt-us, f. tri- three + partītus, pa. pple. of partīrī to divide.]
1. Divided into or composed of three parts or kinds; threefold, triple.
c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1031 Freewyll, Vertew & Vyce, as trypartyte [rimes lyght, wyght]. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 161 Of the tripartite langage of Saxones,..the weste men of Englonde sownde and acorde more with the men of the este..then the men of the northe with men of the sowthe. Ibid. III. 275 Oon Socrates Cassiodorus commendethe in his story tripartite. 1592Warner Alb. Eng. viii. xliii. (1612) 206 Of Brittish race and many, and of Saxon Princes some, Whose blood by Normaine mixture now is tripartite become. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 56 Hee divided the nights according to a tripartite or three⁓fold function, For sleepe, for affaires of State, and for his booke. 1647Cleveland Poems, Smectymnuus 44 Like to an Ignis fatuus, whose flame Though sometimes tripartite, joynes in the same. 1745J. Mason Self Knowl. i. ii. (1853) 14 Man is..a tripartite Person; or a compound Creature made up of three distinct Parts, viz. the Body, which is the earthy or mortal Part of him, the Soul, which is the animal or sensitive Part; and the Spirit or Mind, which is the rational and immortal Part. 1848Gallenga Italy I. iv. iii. 468 Though still nominally tripartite, Italy, for all commercial and intellectual purposes, was one. 1861E. O'Curry Lect. MS. Materials 347 The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick. 1900Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 10/1 The folding bicycle... This detachable machine is known as the ‘Tripartite’, because it is made to disconnect into three separate parts.
b. Involving, or of the nature of, division into three parts.
1576Fleming tr. Caius' Dogs (1880) 2, I wyll expresse and declare in due order, the grand and generall kinde of English Dogges,..making a tripartite diuision. 1596Harington (title) An Anatomie of the Metamorphosed Aiax. Wherein by a tripertite method is plainly, openly and demonstratiuely declared [etc.]. 1785Burke Nabob of Arcot Wks. 1842 I. 331 They prevailed on him to propose a tri⁓partite division of that vast country. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) IV. xxxix. 370 The tripartite division of the earth's surface is a tradition of unknown antiquity. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 724 A tripartite division into philosophical, historical and practical theology.
2. Made in three corresponding parts or copies, as an indenture (q.v.) drawn up between three persons or parties, each of whom preserves one of the copies.
1442in Proc. King's Counc. Irel. (Rolls) 275 He was bounde by endenture tripartite to kepe the peas. a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 74 One indenture try⁓partite; the one to remayne with these Butlers purveyours..the other parte, with the clerke of buttillary..the thirde parte to remayne in the countyng-house. 1592West 1st Pt. Symbol. §47 D, These deedes indented are not only bypartite..but also may be made tripartite, that is of three parts. 1643Baker Chron., Hen. IV 36 They [Earls of Northumberland and Worcester, and Henry Hotspur] agreed upon a Tripartite Indenture under their hands and seales, to divide the Kingdome into three parts. a1743Somerville Sweet-Scented Miser 62 By precedents a bond can write, Or an indenture tripartite.
3. Engaged in or concluded between three parties.
1497in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. I. 50 The tripartite Warre..determyned ayenst the said Turk, and how the Hungaries, Boyams, and the Polans..shall make werre by land [etc.]. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 862/1 The articles of the league tripartite, agreed betwixt the emperour, the king of England, and the French king. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 666 George Count Solmes, Ernestus of Nassau,..and Vere General of the English,..Govern'd the Army by a Tripartite Command. 1775L. Shaw Hist. Moray iii. (1882) 402 A parsonage..the patronage whereof was once tripartite between the King, Marshal, and Duffus. 1857Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. I. xxiv. 88 The tripartite treaty which virtually exists among three of the leading powers of the world.
4. Her.
a. Applied to the field when divided into three parts of different tinctures: = tiercé.
b. Applied to a cross or saltire when each of its members consists of three narrow bands with spaces between. Also triparted, † tripartited.
1796Stedman Surinam II. xix. 79 The arms [of Surinam] are tripartite, which I apprehend to be some of those of the house of Somelsdyke, the West India company, and the town of Amsterdam.
5. Consisting of three parts or divisions, as a member or organ of an animal or plant.
a. Zool. and Anat.
1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 936 A black bill or beak, hardish, tripartite. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. iv. iv. 163 It is inserted into the three Intervals of the four upper Ribs, being tripartite. 1911J. W. Jenkinson Sea Urchin 270 These larvae had a mouth and a typically tri-partite gut.
b. Bot.: spec. of a leaf, etc., Divided into three segments nearly to the base. (Abbrev. 3-partite.)
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Leaf, Tripartite Leaf. 1862Darwin Fertil. Orchids ii. 90 The stigmatic surface is differently shaped, being more plainly tripartite. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 256 Solanum Dulcamara..leaves ovate or cordate, sometimes 3-partite.
6. Math. Involving three sets of variables.
1869Cayley Math. Papers VI. 464 The quantic is unipartite, bipartite, tripartite, &c., according as the number of sets is one, two, three, &c.
B. n.
†a. A tripartite indenture (see 2). Obs.
b. A book, document, or treatise in three parts.
1480Coventry Leet Bk. 445 The people..in Hasil-wode,..throwen don thornes, ffirs, fern, brome; diggen turves, & such other; where be the tripartite they owe nothyng to haue there but comien of pasture to their bestes cominable. 1657R. Mossom (title) The Preacher's Tripartite, in Three Books. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xliv. (1836) 757 The tripartite [tripertīta] of Aelius Paetus..was preserved as the oldest work of jurisprudence. 1861E. O'Curry Lect. MS. Materials 350 Father Colgan's deductions from the text of the Tripartite [cf. quot. 1861 in sense 1 above].
▪ II. † tripartite, v. Obs. rare.
[f. as prec.]
trans. To divide into three parts, or among three persons.
c1470Harding Chron. xv. i. (MS. Ashm. 34, lf. 13 b), Whanne he [Brutus] had the Ile alle Trypartytede [v.r. (MS.) tripertited; ed. 1543 tripertyed] He callede the Chyef logres aftir locryne. 1633Gerard Descr. Somerset (1900) 103 Reginald Prouse whose son's daughters, married to the Earls of March Mortimer, to the Lord Zouche, and to the Earl of Pembrooke Hastings, tripartited these lands. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 165 The Text at the first was tripartited, and two of those parts are already handled.
¶b. erron. To divide (in general).
1653T. Brooks Precious Remedies (1658) 275 margin, The Counsellor saith, A States-man should be thus tripartited, his will to God, his love to his Master, his heart to his Countrey, his secret to his friend, his time to businesse. |