dispartationn.
A conjectural emendation, in older editions of Massinger's works, for the word disputations (see quot. 1630), intended to mean ‘division, partition, apartment’.
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the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent > and separates two things > a partition
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1630 P. Massinger Renegado ii. vi. sig. E4v Why, looke you sir, there are so many lobbies, Out offices, and disputations here.]
1779 J. M. Mason in Dramatick Works Philip Massinger II. 36 Disputations. This word seems to convey here no Meaning: It is very probable that the Author wrote Dispartations, a Word signifying separate Apartments. D.
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