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compartition|kɒmpɑːˈtɪʃən|
[ad. L. type compartītiōn-em, n. of action f. compartīrī to compart.]
The action of comparting.
†1. Division and sharing with another. Obs.
1636R. Brathwait Roman Emperors 62 Crownes hardly admit the compartition even of a brother.
2. Arch. The distribution and disposition of the parts of a plan; laying out.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 39, I am now come to the Casting and Contexture of the whole Work, comprehended under the term of Compartition. 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v., By Compartition Architects understand a graceful and useful distribution of the whole ground⁓plot. 1726Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. I. 2 a, The Compartition is that which subdivides the whole Platform of the House into smaller Platforms.
b. One of the parts so marked out and divided.[So J. and others after him, but the quots. may belong to 2.] 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 14 Save in their Temples and Amphi-Theaters, which needed no Compartitions. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 54 We might examine their artifice in the contignations, the rule and order in the compartitions. |