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▪ I. compart, v.|kəmˈpɑːt|
[ad. OF. compartir ‘to diuide, part, or put, into equall peeces’ (Cotgr.), or (its source) L. compartīrī to divide and share with another, f. com- + partīrī to divide, share.]
†1. trans. To divide and share with others. Obs.
1575Fenton Gold. Epist. (1577) 59 He coulde not comparte wyth hym his clothes. 1605Daniel Philotas (1717) 357 And still compart The best Degrees and Honours of the Field, In hope to win his Love.
2. To subdivide, partition, or mark off into smaller parts; to divide into compartments.
a1785Glover Athenaid iv. (R.), The crystal surface is comparted all, In niches verg'd with rubies. 1876L. H. Morgan in N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 63 The interior was comparted by willow screens. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur iv. iii, Each panel was comparted like a modern office-desk, and each compartment crowded with labelled folios.
3. Arch. To lay out in accordance with a plan, with proper distribution and disposition of parts.
1624[see comparting below]. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 79 Streets..ought to be so comparted, as to be strait. Ibid. I. 90 The pilasters..ought to be so comparted, as to fall into that part of the river where the stream is least rapid. Ibid. II. 11 Thus Vitruvius comparted the round Temples.
Hence comˈparted ppl. a.; comˈparting vbl. n.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 33, I make haste to the Casting and Comparting of the whole work. 1654Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Warrs Flanders 299 He begirt the Town..with divers well comparted Quarters. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Builder 583 Comparted; divided into smaller parts; or partitioned into smaller spaces.
▪ II. † compart, n. Obs. rare.
[f. com- + part n.]
A part along with others, a companion part.
1645Digby Nat. Bodies xi. (1657) 109 Unseverable from one another, as being compartes of the same substance. a1694J. Scott Pract. Disc. xxii. (T.), And yet remain unseparable, as being comparts of the same substance. 1697J. Serjeant Solid Philos. 91. |