partyn.
/ˈpɑːti/, U.S. /ˈpɑrdi/ 1.
a. A division of a whole; a part, portion, or share. Also: a part of the body. Obsolete.In quot. c1325, to depart in parties = to divide into parts.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun]
limbc1000
partyc1300
feature1393
member?a1400
partc1400
dimension1600
site1861
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun]
deala800
doleOE
endOE
lotlOE
partyc1300
parta1325
specec1330
portiona1387
piecec1400
proportion1443
parcellingc1449
faction1577
piecemeal1603
proportional1856
c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 418 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 231 Þat he for-clef is foule bouk in þre partyes.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8112 (MED) Hii departede verst hor ost as in vour partye.
1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 475/2 In party of payment of the said l li.
1497 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) sig. eiij Bewteuous in colour of al partyes of theyr bodyes.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvii. f. xlij The vayle of the temple was rent in two parties.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Gjv In what partye of the sholdre is it?
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 47 Out of a generall, a party may be excepted, as out of a manor an acre.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 69 To prov the truth concerning an over-great partie of them.
b. a (also in, of) party: partly; somewhat, a little. Also with modifying word, as in (also a) great party: to a great extent, for the most part. for the more party: = for the more part at part n.1 Phrases 1a(c) (cf. more adj. 1c). (the) most party: the most part, the majority. (for the) most party: for the most part; mostly. Obsolete.Cf. a-party adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > incompletely or partly [phrase]
in partc1300
a (also in, of) party1372
to (the) half1547
by halves1563
by fractions1796
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > in general [phrase] > for the most part
for the more party1372
for (also be, in) the most part (also deal, party)a1387
for the more partc1405
for (the) most partc1405
much dealc1425
in substancea1450
for the mostc1531
in (also for) the generality1580
for the general1581
in (also for, on, upon) the maina1591
largely1594
principally1600
in chiefa1616
mainly1640
nine times (parts, etc.) out of (also in, of) ten1648
greatly1742
as a rule1828
society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > as deputy or representative [phrase] > on behalf of or in the name of
on behalf of1303
in behalf ofc1320
in ——'s namec1325
a (also in, of) party1372
in my voicea1616
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [phrase] > in his, its, etc., self > for one's own part
a (also in, of) party1372
for one's (own) parta1393
of his behalfa1500
for one's particular1565
on (also upon) one's own account1609
for my (his, etc.) share1643
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a large extent
in (also a) great party1372
a great wayc1405
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a great part or proportion > the greater part, the majority
the more partOE
the best part ofOE
(the) more parta1350
(the) most parta1350
(the) most part alla1350
(the) most party1372
for (also be, in) the most part (also deal, party)a1387
the better part ofa1393
the mo?a1400
most forcea1400
substancea1413
corsec1420
generalty?c1430
the greater partc1430
three quartersc1470
generalityc1485
the most feck1488
corpse1533
most1553
nine-tenths?1556
better half1566
generality?1570
pluralityc1570
body1574
the great body (of)1588
flush1592
three fourths1600
best1601
heap1609
gross1625
lump1709
bulk1711
majority1714
nineteen in twenty1730
balance1747
sweighta1800
heft1816
chief1841
the force1842
thick end1847
1372 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 74 (MED) I sal ben..so conning Þat most partiȝe of þe puple Sal wiln maken me king.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxx. 37 Iacob takyng greene pople ȝerdez..aparty vnryndide hem.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Prol. Kings 2 Þe tunge forsoþe of Syriis & of caldeis..of a gret partye neeȝ costeyȝeþ to Ebru.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 1 Cor. xiii. 12 Now I knowe of party; thanne, forsoth, I schal knowe as and I am knowyn.
c1390 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 268 (MED) Sum temporal men..han receyued..grace of deuocion, & in parti sauour of gostli ocupacion.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 145 For þe moste partye, culuers haueþ twey briddes, male and female.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 22862 Men..Wit hundes eten þe mast parti.
1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 122 (MED) That she be maried..by assent..of all or of the most partye of his executours.
?c1450 (?a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 389 Þe lordis ben vndo in grete party.
c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd Three Treat. J. Wycklyffe (1851) p. cxxxv Take we heede to..nunnes & sustris, & see hou þei folowen Crist for þe more partie.
c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 189 (MED) The comon people..be not for the moste party lerned in holy scriptur.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 292 He sall eschew it in party.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) i.1 In erth a party we ere blisful, in als mykil als we ioy in god and hatis synne.
a1500 Warkworth's Chron. (1839) 11 Alle Englonde for the more partye hatyd hym.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 21 (MED) I knowe thynges that be for to come a grete partye.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1256 The excesse of Nete and Mese by arithmeticall proportion, sheweth the exuperances in equall partie.
c. party of reason n. Obsolete a part of speech. Cf. part of reason n. at part n.1 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > [noun]
partOE
part of reasonc1450
party of reasonc1450
part of speech1517
word class1882
word category1883
word-type1936
c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 36 (MED) How knowest a pronoun? A party of reson declynyd, the whych is sette for a propre name and reseueth certayn person.
c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) 1815 (MED) Gentyll Etymology..taught the partyes of reasoun..whyche ys nowne, whyche verbe..whyche pronoun.
2.
a. A side; a direction; a way; = part n.1 16a. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > [noun] > one of > boundary or side of
partyc1350
quarter1535
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 7 (MED) He had in his riȝth honde seuen sterres, & out at his mouþe com a swerd keruyng on boþe parties [v.r. sydes].
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxv. 18 Two golden cherubyn..þou schalt make on eyþer party [a1425 L.V. side] of þe preying place.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 4901 (MED) Þoo þat woneþ in þe est partie [of a mountain] Þe sonne and þe hote skye Al þe day hem shyneþ on.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 91 (MED) And a man þare take a spere and sett it euen in þe erthe at midday..it makez na schadowe till na party.
c1450 (?a1400) T. Chestre Sir Launfal (1930) 636 (MED) Þe lordes toke har leue to wende, Euerych yn hys partye.
1451–1500 (c1400) Vision of Tundale 1973 (MED) Chaynes..of fyne gold..hanged thykke on ilke party.
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (?1555) xxii. sig. H.iiii Marchauntes passeth from both parties by the watter of Tiber.
1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Div In the Debitor partie. And..in the Creditor party of the Leager [sc. Ledger].
b. A part of the world; a region, district; = part n.1 18a. Usually in plural. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > region of the earth > [noun]
endc893
earthOE
coastc1315
plagea1382
provincea1382
regiona1382
countrya1387
partya1387
climatea1398
partc1400
nookc1450
corner1535
subregion1559
parcel1582
quart1590
climature1604
latitudea1640
area1671
district1712
zone1829
natural region1888
sector1943
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 103 (MED) Ivdea is a kyngdom of Syria, a party of Palestyna.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2094 (MED) Þe werld es..Delt in thrin parteis [a1400 Gött. partijs] sere.
a1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Royal) (1886) 123 In all þe partyes & kyngdoms of þe eest.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 214 (MED) In the riȝt parti of Asye there was a dragon.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 1 Dyvers partyss beyond the see.
1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 17 Freelye to goe and traffike into those parties of newe discouerie.
1616 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) III. 323 To depairt..to the pairties beyond sea, of France or..Germanie allanerlie.
3.
a. A side in a battle, dispute, lawsuit, etc.; a cause or interest; = part n.1 17a. on a party: on one side; (in quot. a1400) in a partnership or conspiracy. Obsolete.Now only as in senses 6a, 9a.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > side or cause
halfa885
side?a1300
quarrel1340
partya1375
parta1382
cause1588
quality1598
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [adverb] > on one side
on a partya1375
unilaterally1858
a1375 [see sense 3b].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 729 (MED) Bi-tuix þe warlau and his wijf, Adam es stad in strang strijf; Bath ar now on a partie to confund man wit trecherie.
1411 Rolls of Parl. III. 650/1 The ordenance..made betwen William Lord the Roos on that oon partie, and Robert Tirwhit..on that other partie.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 113 (MED) Arthur..dide arme alle his meyne and..thei were well vij ml. on his partye.
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 10 A paire of Indentures made betwen your Highnes on the oon partie and William Courteney..on the other partie.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 16 I cannot tell on whose partie first to commence.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 289 Manye feates of armes were there done on both parties.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxviii. 21 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 189 Iehoua doth my party take.
1649 G. Langbaine Answer Vniv. Oxford 44 What hath been said on either party.
1762 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. xi, in Wks. II. 253 By the contrary party men often made a bad bargain with the devil.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vii. v. 210 Rome was on that party which at the time could awe her with the greatest power or win her by the most lavish wealth.
b. to hold party: to make good one's cause or position; (in early use) spec. to hold one's own in a battle. Cf. to make one's party good at good adj., n., adv., and int. Phrases 1c(b)(i). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > make good one's cause or position
to hold partya1375
to make one's party (also part) good?1520
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 3643 His men miȝt nouȝt..hold party to puple þat hem folwed.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 54 (MED) Haue thei so grete power to holde party a-geyn oures?
c. for (also of, on, upon) one's party [compare Anglo-Norman de ma partie, en ma partie for my part (second quarter of the 14th cent. or earlier), Middle French de ma partie myself (early 16th cent.)] : as far as one is concerned; on one's part or behalf. Cf. part n.1 Phrases 1b, Phrases 1c(a). Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1390 (a1325) Ipotis (Vernon) 149 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 343/1 (MED) God..bad hem waxen and multiplye, Eueri beest on his partye.
c1391 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Huntington) vii. 3291* I thenke also, for mi partie, Upon the lawe of Juerie.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 12810 Tell þam soth, o [a1400 Fairf. of; a1400 Gött. on] mi parti.
?a1425 in D. Knoop & G. P. Jones Mediæval Mason (1933) 269 They schul enquere euery mon, On hys party, as wyl as he con.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 577 He sente, on his party, men to aspye what dedis he ded, and the quene sente pryvaly on hir party spyes to know what dedis he had done.
?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iii. xi. 206 Thou, good lorde, fulfyll that I want of my partye.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 101 If they beleved any offense on their partie against the Goddes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 49 What a foole art thou, A ramping foole, to brag, and stamp, and sweare, Vpon my partie. View more context for this quotation
1683 Mem. Sir J. Melvil 113 Promising each of his party a share of the forfaulters of the Queens Lords.
d. A league, confederacy; a conspiracy, plot. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > an alliance or association for common purpose
confederacya1387
league1452
allya1481
confedereya1513
consociation1603
closea1616
party1624
combinement1658
collegationa1700
confederateship1715
consortium1881
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 88 Hee had such parties with all his bordering neighbours.
1640 in Hamilton Papers (1880) App. 261 The said Marques made many proffers of great parties within the Realme of Scotland.
1664 L. Carlell tr. P. Corneille Heraclius ii. vi. 24 How rashly too Heraclius name is lent To a small Partie, an ill manag'd Plot?
4. A point, a particular; (a part or aspect of) a matter, an affair. Cf. part n.1 5. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > quality of being specific or detailed > a detail or particular
circumstances?c1225
parcela1325
partya1393
specialc1405
particular?a1425
partc1425
specialityc1443
specialty1449
especialityc1460
particularity1528
respect1533
severals1606
especial1633
particularment1642
retail1644
instance1649
circumstantiality1854
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 1348 (MED) His houres of Astronomie He kepeth as for that partie Which longeth to thinspeccion Of love and his affeccion.
1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 115 (MED) Y be-queth to eche of my seide executours for his labor in this party to be had, c s.
c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 49 To do bytwene them a finall discussyng and a goode a-corde in þat partie.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 9 (MED) She remembred the myschef of hir fader and moder and brother and susters and sore wepte when she hadde thought on all parteis [Fr. coses].
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xi. 50 Now after this for to make relacyon Of famous rethoryke so in this party Is to the fourth parte pronuncyacyon I shall it shewe anone ryght openly.
5. A state, condition, plight, predicament. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits
needfulnessc1350
kankedortc1374
pressc1375
needfultya1382
briguec1400
brikec1400
plightc1400
taking?c1425
partyc1440
distrait1477
brakea1529
hot water1537
strait1544
extremes1547
pickle1562
praemunire1595
lock1598
angustiae1653
difficulty1667
scrape1709
premune1758
hole1760
Queer Street1811
warm water1813
strift1815
fix1816
plisky1818
snapper1818
amplush1827
false position1830
bind1851
jackpot1887
tight1896
squeeze1905
jam1914
c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 117 Þe knyȝtis of Vlixes Were torned to swyne as to þe ye. Vmbethink þe wel on þis partie.
c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 49 Knyght, i see you in the feblear partie, wherfore it wer shame to assayle you.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 4 Ye see..in what party we be now.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 3518 (MED) If thu..had done after my rede, Thu shuldest not now haue ben in this parte [rhyme vterly, trewelly].
c1500 (a1449) J. Lydgate Isopes Fabules (Trin. Cambr.) 242 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 575 (MED) The pore haþe few hys party to socour.
II. An individual concerned in a proceeding.
6. † b. An opponent, antagonist; an enemy or opposing force. Obsolete. [Compare French forte partie, a powerful antagonist (17th cent. or earlier).]
a. Any of the groups of people constituting a side in a formal proceeding, such as the litigants in a legal action, those who enter into a contract, etc.See also third party n.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > [noun] > person involved in proceedings
partyc1300
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun]
partyc1300
pleaderc1626
litigant1660
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 577 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 123 (MED) Þe king wolde þat In his court þat plai scholde beon i-driue, for ase muche ase a lewed Man þe o partye was.
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 49 Tuuei iustises, oþer on mit sume kniȝtte of þe schire in wuche þe parties assentez.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. 268 (MED) A mayden..is maried þorw brokage, As bi assent of sondry partyes.
1418 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 199 Ȝyf eny debate be be-twix eny of the Fraternite..that Anon the partye plentyff come to the Maystres.
1467–8 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 305 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 There shal none of the saide counsaile..passe in no jure betwene party and party.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 146 Euenly dele twene these partyes tweyn.
a1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvii. 100 Becauss their bandis wer reddy to be proclamit The pairteis mett and maid a fair contrack.
1620 T. Cooper Cry & Reuenge of Blood 38 Where the party delinquent is of that exorbitant power, that it cannot stand with the safety of a diseased state, to question him Iudicially.
1662 in J. B. Craven Church Life S. Ronaldshay & Burray (1911) 37 The minister seeke..directed the schoolmaister..to proclaime the pairtyes who wer to be marryed.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Those that make any Deed, and they to whom it is made, are called Parties in the Deed.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 158 If a Bishop be a Party to a Suit, and excommunicate his adversary; such Excommunication..shall not disable or bar his Adversary from his Action.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. v. 124 I will let Lesley, who is an honest fellow for a landsman, know, that he attends for the benefit of either party.
1885 Sir J. Pearson in Law Rep. 29 Church Div. 453 A party is not allowed to bring his case before the Court piecemeal.
1926 W. S. Holdsworth Hist. Eng. Law IX. 150 It was, from a very early period, the accepted rule that only the parties to an action were estopped by a judgement in that action.
1969 M. Puzo Godfather (1972) i. viii. 112 Tom Hagen was busy trying to find a mediator satisfactory to both parties so that a conference could be arranged.
2000 Investor Nov. 19/1 You must have a properly written contract and a tenancy agreement..allowing either party thereafter to give one or two months' notice.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opponent
adversaryc1350
contraryc1405
overthwarter?c1450
party1488
opposant1489
oppositec1500
encounterer1523
oppugner1535
header1537
opponent1553
antagonist1555
crosser1565
adverse1593
oppositor1598
oppugnator1611
stickler1612
opposera1616
antipos1631
thwarter1633
Antarctic1637
contrariant1657
foe1697
oppositionist1786
oppugnanta1834
counterworker1867
contester1884
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 560 Bettyr thai war and thai gat ewyn party In feild to byde othir with suerd or speyr.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 262 I doubte me to haue shortly a strong werre & to haue a doo with a strong partye.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. iv. 38 Ilk ane besy his party for to irk.
?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Piiijv He is denied of hys frendis and seruants, quho should haue accompaneit hym to hys honor & suretie of his life, in respect of the graytnes of hys party.
1635 D. Dickson Short Explan. Hebrewes 287 Hee maketh their Partie, Sinne.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. Pref. p. vii Concerning which I refer the Reader to the books and letters written by their parties of Port-royal, and to their own weak answers and vindications.
a1668 J. Renwick Choice Coll. Serm. (1776) 170 He is a very sore party for the sinner that stands in opposition to Him.
1844 R. Browning Colombe's Birthday in Bells & Pomegranates No. VI ii. 8/2 Oh, be acquainted with your party, sir!
7. † b. Chiefly Scottish. A person associated with another as a counterpart; a fellow participant in something; a partner (in marriage, etc.). Obsolete.† c. Scottish. An equal in a contest; a match; a person equal to a task. Obsolete.
a. With to (formerly also in): a person who is concerned in an action or affair; a participant; an accessory.Used with or without article.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun] > participation in common interest > one who participates
party1399
member?a1560
intercommoner1581
fellow commoner1591
participate1648
1399 Rolls of Parl. III. 451/2 He was nevere partie, no kaster, no willyng ne assentyng to the dethe of the Duc of Gloucestre.
1451 Rolls of Parl. V. 225/1 Which shall not be partie to eny such offence, ne Procurer, Councellour, nor Abbettour to the doyng therof.
a1470 in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1871) I. 461 (MED) Þat noman make him partie in assemble of the people..and that aswell of principall, as of other partiez.
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 9 Preamble The said Edward was not previe ne partie to the offence of his Sonne.
1530 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 50 Decrees..whervnto the seid Abbott was neuer partye.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) v. i. 86 I do suspect this Trash To be a party in this Iniurie.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 244 He also made himselfe a partie in the present quarrell.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 25 I would willingly have been a party in any kind of wickedness.
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit lii. 594 He was a party to all their proceedings.
1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 18 July 138/1 The defendant was a party to the making of the codicil.
1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island xvi. 161 This poor creature loved her—trusted her. How could she be a party to his destruction?
1981 G. Boycott In Fast Lane viii. 44 As captain, he was a party to the decision to bring three off-spinners and therefore helped to create the problem himself.
2001 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Jan. a18/2 Both [strategies] are impossible so long as the U.S. remains a party to the ABM Treaty.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun]
yferec870
brothereOE
ymonec950
headlingOE
ferec975
fellowOE
friendOE
eveningOE
evenlinglOE
even-nexta1225
compeerc1275
monec1300
companiona1325
partnerc1330
peerc1330
neighbour?c1335
falec1380
matec1380
makec1385
companya1425
sociatec1430
marrow1440
partyc1443
customera1450
conferec1450
pareil?c1450
comparcionerc1475
resortc1475
socius1480
copartner?1504
billy?a1513
accomplice1550
panion1553
consorterc1556
compartner1564
co-mate1576
copemate1577
competitor1579
consociate1579
coach-companion1589
comrade1591
consort1592
callant1597
comrado1598
associate1601
coach-fellow1602
rival1604
social1604
concomitanta1639
concerner1639
consociator1646
compane1647
societary1652
bor1677
socius1678
interessora1687
companioness1691
rendezvouser1742
connection1780
frater1786
matey1794
pardner1795
left bower1829
running mate1867
stable companion1868
pard1872
buddy1895
maat1900
bro1922
stable-mate1941
bredda1969
Ndugu1973
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > spouse, consort, or partner
ferec975
matchOE
makec1175
spousea1200
lemanc1275
fellowc1350
likea1393
wed-ferea1400
partyc1443
espouse?c1450
bedfellow1490
yokefellow?1542
espousal1543
spouse1548
mate1549
marrow1554
paragon1557
yokemate1567
partner1577
better halfa1586
twin1592
moiety1611
copemate1631
consort1634
half-marrow1637
matrimonya1640
helpmeet1661
other half1667
helpmate1715
spousie1735
life companion1763
worse half1783
life partner1809
domestic partner1815
ball and chain1921
lover1969
c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 348 (MED) If þe persoon in matrimonye aske of þe oþer parti fleischli deede..he is excusid fro synne.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 110 Quhiddir gif a man or woman being lang absent fra thair party, or haifand thair party impotent throw seiknes,..may mary an wthir?
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 198 Thow..wes King Frances pairty maik and peir.
1651 tr. F. de Quintana Hist. Don Fenise 249 They fell upon this discourse of marriage, saying that it was necessary for every one, to take a party conformable to his disposition.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > competitor or rival > an equal in a contest
fita1250
matchc1400
party1533
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 20/7 Romulus seand him self nocht party to invade the king be opin violence [etc.]
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 118 Thinkand..he sould be pairtie to the king and gif him battell.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 20 The governour nor cardinall durst nocht..gif thame battell becaus thay mycht nocht be pairtie at that tyme to thame.
8.
a. The person concerned or in question (usually defined by an adjective, relative clause, etc.).Now chiefly in humorous or mock-serious use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > [noun] > person in question
partya1475
figure1734
persona designata1860
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 145 To make hem also ffauorable and parcial as were..the parties þat so moved hem.
1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 12 §9 The sergeant of the pantrie..shall..giue bread to the partie that shal haue his hande so striken of.
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 12 [They] thought the parties baptized of heretiques, ought to be rebaptized agayne.
1611 B. Jonson Catiline ii. sig. D4 Gal. Tis the partie, Madame. Fvl. What party? Has he no name? View more context for this quotation
1684 R. Johnson Enchiridion Medicum i. iii. 33 When the fit is coming or upon the Party, blow up some sneezing-powder into the Nostrils.
1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 467 If done immediately after the party's death.
1823 W. Wordsworth Prose Wks. III. 206 The party was not known to me, though she lived at Hawkshead.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. v. 63 ‘Do you know, my Lord’, (said the old party solemnly).
1927 ‘E. Bramah’ Max Carrados Myst. 109 ‘The old party there’—a comprehensive nod in the direction of the absent charlady.
?1956 D. Goodis Down There (1958) ii. 24 I've known this party for three years now and I hardly know him at all.
1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Oct. 6/2 The stout, cantankerous old party of Mark Gerson's 1950 portraits turned out to have been a romantic at heart.
b. With a. A person. (In early quots., a particular use of sense 6a.)Now chiefly in colloquial or humorous use; cf. sense 8a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > [noun]
hadc900
lifesmaneOE
maneOE
world-maneOE
ghostOE
wyeOE
lifeOE
son of manOE
wightc1175
soulc1180
earthmanc1225
foodc1225
person?c1225
creaturec1300
bodyc1325
beera1382
poppetc1390
flippera1400
wat1399
corsec1400
mortal?a1425
deadly?c1450
hec1450
personagec1485
wretcha1500
human1509
mundane1509
member1525
worma1556
homo1561
piece of flesh1567
sconce1567
squirrel?1567
fellow creature1572
Adamite1581
bloat herringa1586
earthling1593
mother's child1594
stuff1598
a piece of flesh1600
wagtail1607
bosom1608
fragment1609
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personality1678
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noddle1705
human subject1712
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somebody1724
terrestrial1726
anybody1733
individual1742
character1773
cuss1775
jig1781
thingy1787
bod1788
curse1790
his nabs1790
article1796
Earthite1814
critter1815
potato1815
personeityc1816
nibs1821
somebody1826
tellurian1828
case1832
tangata1840
prawn1845
nigger1848
nut1856
Snooks1860
mug1865
outfit1867
to deliver the goods1870
hairpin1879
baby1880
possum1894
hot tamale1895
babe1900
jobbie1902
virile1903
cup of tea1908
skin1914
pisser1918
number1919
job1927
apple1928
mush1936
face1944
jong1956
naked ape1965
oke1970
punter1975
1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 191 She should be innocent, if she were not fastened to so guilty a Party.
a1654 T. Gataker Antidote Errour (1670) 14 A partie offends and wrongs his Neighbor.]
1686 London Gaz. No. 2149/4 A Red Scarlet Cloak..delivered to a wrong Party by Mr. Capers at the Bells of Osney.
1770 S. Foote Lame Lover iii. 52 There is, likewise, another party, for whom a place ought to be kept.
1855 W. Bagehot Lit. Stud. I. 304 ‘From what you tell me, sir, said an American,..I should say he was a go-ahead party’.
1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. iv. 185 Calumny herself has been a most calumniated ‘party’, to use the mercantile slang word of the day.
1870 M. Collins Vivian II. vi. 116 She was a professedly pious party.
1935 H. Walpole Inquisitor iii. ii. 448 Mrs. Pender..was a very slim old party with a heavy black moustache.
1963 D. MacDonald Against Amer. Grain 83 It was still possible then to present Mark Twain not only as a picturesque old party but as a social critic.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 219/1 Theer war a party theer Ah'da swoorn A knowed frum sumwheer.
c. Originally: a telephone user connected to a party line. Later: any person using a telephone.Cf. party line n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > caller
caller1879
telephoner1880
party1912
ringer-up1928
phoner1933
telephonist1952
1912 J. Poole Pract. Telephone Handbk. (ed. 5) xxxii. 531 Party lines up to 4 stations on a line can be worked on the automatic by giving each of the parties on the line a separate number and multipleing the lines on four sets of connectors.
1938 C. W. Wilman Automatic Teleph. (ed. 2) xix. 185 All incoming calls are received at one of the ordinary telephones, from which they can be transferred to the wanted party.
1973 Times 23 May 8/7 I heard him say: ‘I am receiving a report on that right now’ to the party on the other end.
1993 CCL: Canad. Children's Lit. Summer 17 Another pig appears to be sharing a joke with a party on the other end of the phone line.
III. A group or company of people.† 12. A game or match, esp. in card games such as piquet and quadrille; = partie n. (figurative in quot. c1580). Obsolete.
9.
a. A group of people on one side in a contest, battle, etc., or united in maintaining a cause, policy, or opinion in opposition to others; a faction. Now rare in general sense (cf. sense 9b).
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun]
partyc1325
sidec1325
partc1385
livery1477
faction1509
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 1445 A cheuentein..sei þat hor partie [a1400 Trin. Cambr. partiȝe] ibroȝt was nei to ssame.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1146 (MED) Boþe partiȝes prestly a-paraylde hem..of alle tristy a-tir þat to batayle longed.
?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 632 (MED) The Meire..Made hem hove in rengis tweyne, A strete bitwene eche partye lyke a wall.
?c1450 (?a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 372 (MED) If þe clergi gete þis swerde oonys fully in her power, þe seculer party may go pipe wiþ an yuy lefe for eny lordeschipis þat þe clerkis wille ȝeue hem aȝen.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) Prol. sig. a.iii Takynge parte yt suche prechers weren of ye party of Ihesu cryst.
1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 284 Euerie partie returned home.
a1625 J. Fletcher Chances v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ccc2v/1 My end is mirth, And pleasing, if I can, all parties.
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 481 Nor were..his Party backwards to blow up the Coals.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. vii. 496 To unite the party a bond of confederacy was formed.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. vi. 413 Thus ended a war..in which both parties exerted their utmost strength.
1813 R. Southey March to Moscow v, in Poet. Wks. (1838) VI. 219 It was through thick and thin to its party true; Its back was buff, and its sides were blue.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 126 A party of order had been formed among all classes of Englishmen.
1993 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 54 251 At the beginning he focussed on trying to bridge the gap that he saw between the ‘peace-party’ and the ‘war-party.’
b. spec. A formally constituted political group, usually organized on a national basis, which contests elections and aims to form or take part in a government.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun]
partc1385
livery1477
faction1509
partialitya1533
side1566
party1682
set1748
democracy1803
machine party1858
column1906
MNLF1975
1682 A. Behn Like Father, like Son Prol. Whilst Honest Tory Fools abroad do Roame, Whigg Lovers Slay and Plot, and Love at Home. Nay one Advantage greater far than this, The Party helps to keep their Mistresses.
1705 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 612 The Crafty Whig-party..in opposition to the High Churchmen which was another distinction of a party, from the Low church-men.
1714 A. Pope Let. 27 Aug. in Corr. (1956) I. 245 I expect no greater from the Whig-party than the same liberty.—A curse on the word Party, which I have been forc'd to use so often in this period!
1791 T. Paine Common Sense (new ed.) 98 The narrow and crabby spirit of a despairing political party.
1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. I. xv. 174 It is in caucuses that it is decided, for whom the people shall be instructed to vote, and by what course of politics the party may be secured.
1847 Congress. Globe 4 Feb. 322/2 I had been accused of flying the track on the creed of the Democratic party.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 916/2 The German working men..insisted upon modifying the tactics of the International, and began to build up a Social-Democratic political party.
1951 R. Crossman Diary 5 Dec. (1981) 47 The Bevanites seem much more important, well organized and machiavellian to the rest of the Labour Party, and indeed to the U.S.A., than they do to us who are in the Group.
2000 Times 25 Apr. ii. 19/1 For all politicians use suppressio veri and suggestio falsi as part of their trade, minimising their own faults and maximising those of the opposite party.
c. The policy or system of taking sides on public questions; attachment to or support for a particular party; party feeling or spirit; partisanship, esp. in political matters. Now rare.In quot. 1992, alluding to earlier usage.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism
partiality1520
partaking1533
factiona1538
factiousness1572
siding1600
side-taking1626
parting1652
partying1681
party spirit1705
party1726
party feeling1796
partyism1831
partisanship1834
factionism1848
partisanism1850
factionalism1855
partisanry1889
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun]
party1726
party politics1755
party system1824
1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. xii. 244 The spirit of Party, which unhappily prevails amongst Mankind.
1774 O. Goldsmith Retaliation 32 Here lies our good Edmund [Burke]..Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up, what was meant for mankind.
1821 J. W. Croker Diary 22 June Party is in England a stronger passion than love, avarice, or ambition.
1841 T. P. Thompson Let. 14 Jan. in Exercises (1842) VI. 32 Party..means being of any but the right party, which is every man's own. For when it is the right, then none will call it party.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 1/3 Party is the embodiment of certain principles, beliefs. persuasions, which are commonly held by all who belong to it as essential to the right conduct of public affairs.
1901 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 370 As for party papers, no one can condemn them who is not prepared to condemn party itself.
1992 A. Fern in M. C. S. Christman ‘Spirit of Party’ Foreword 8/1 As this is being written, the contest for the American presidency is more complex than it has been for more than seventy-five years, and the ‘Spirit of Party’ is undergoing close scrutiny by the public and candidates alike.
d. With the and capital initial. The Communist Party, esp. as forming the sole formal political organization of a communist state.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > Communist Party
Communist Party1850
party1919
1919 Times 11 Nov. 13/2 A tremendous propaganda campaign..to urge factory men and women [in Russia] to join the Party..resulted in an increase of 6,101 members.
1920 Times 5 Oct. 14/3 (heading) Realities of Russia. Iron Rule of ‘The Party’.
1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xxii. 316 One joined the Party, one distributed literature.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Sept. 575/4 The recent dramatic dismissal of the Kerala Government by the President of India..is certain to influence the attitude of the Party towards legally constituted authority.
2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 Apr. 67/1 In the 1980s the Party encouraged qigong as an expression of Chinese essence and a symbol of national pride.
10.
a. Military. A detachment of troops selected for a particular service or duty. In early use also: an army. Cf. war-party n. 2. †upon (also on) party: serving in a detachment carrying out a particular task or duty.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun]
conreyc1330
partyc1330
stalec1350
stuff1412
crew1455
working party1744
draft1756
draught1780
commando1791
detail1862
otriad1916
taskforce1927
stick1953
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [adjective] > carrying out particular task
upon (also on) party1709
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 7339 (MED) We schul laten in þis pas Of our men a parti And nim wiþ ous fair compainie.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xi. 11 Whan þe morewe was comyn, Saul sette þe puple in þre parties..& he smot Amon.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 864 (MED) Alisaundre hym diȝttes Mid a partye of his kniȝttes.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 28 (MED) Foot men were departid in tweie parties, of þe whiche oon was clepid helperes, þe oþere legiouns.
c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 15 The seyd towne was beseged by the Frenshe partye by lond and also by see.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 529 On the gret ost thir partice fast can draw.
a1525 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Adv. 19.2.4) viii. l. 6698 Till baith þe partyis failȝeit aynd.
1562 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 281 [They] devidit thame selffis in sindry partiis.
1646 Prince Rupert Jrnl. 1 Mar. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1898) 13 740 Sunday, a partie from Oxford, surprise Abingdon; but were beatten out.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 18. ⁋6 They have been upon Parties and Skirmishes, when our Armies have lain still.
1756 G. Washington Let. 6 Sept. in Writings (1931) I. 454 Complaint..that the officers and soldiers upon party, take up the strays they find in the woods.
1760 Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army 87 On Guard, Party, or otherwise, the soldiers will copy after their Office.
1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 73*/2 Surprizing several of their posts, routing their parties, and destroying their magazines.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 208/2 Recruiting Parties are a certain number of men..detached from their respective battalions for the purpose of enlisting men.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 2 June 7/2 A few minutes after they had passed our demolition party destroyed the line.
1918 Stars & Stripes 1 Mar. 2/1 The party made the score against the Germans 12 down, Fritz having taken 11 prisoners in another American sector.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Aug. 24/4 They were attacked by a raiding party of Jicarilla Apaches.
b. gen. A group of people (esp. a gang of prisoners) working together. Cf. working party n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > working party
working party1744
party1805
working party1821
work party1823
1805 J. Turnbull Voy. round World I. 113 One of the prisoners belonging to the out-gangs, being sent into camp on Saturday..fell unfortunately into the company of a party of convicts.
1851 Irish Exile (Hobart) 18 Jan. 3/1 Mr P. O'Donohoe arrived here on Wednesday evening last, and was ‘classed’ on Thursday morning, for a hard labour party.
1896 Daily News 28 Dec. 6/3 There are numbers of gangs or ‘parties’, as they are officially termed, working in the open... There is the quarry party, which works about two hundred yards from the prison.
1928 E. Waugh Decline & Fall iii. iv. 249 Paul and a little squad of fellow-criminals were led to the quarries. Grimes was in the party.
1962 O. Pryor Austral.'s Little Cornwall 52 If a party struck a rich patch they worked to the limit of their strength to break as much ore as possible during the two month time limit.
1994 C. McCarthy Crossing 382 He saw in his riding occasional parties of vaqueros..sometimes driving beeves before them.
11.
a. A company of people, esp. one formed temporarily to engage in a shared activity such as travel or sport. Cf. hunting-party n. at hunting n. Compounds 1a, search party n.. Also: a group of animals.In earlier quots. perhaps a development or particular use of sense 1a.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun]
ferec975
flockOE
gingc1175
rout?c1225
companyc1300
fellowshipc1300
covinc1330
eschelec1330
tripc1330
fellowred1340
choira1382
head1381
glub1382
partya1387
peoplec1390
conventc1426
an abominable of monksa1450
body1453
carol1483
band1490
compernagea1500
consorce1512
congregationa1530
corporationa1535
corpse1534
chore1572
society1572
crew1578
string1579
consort1584
troop1584
tribe1609
squadron1617
bunch1622
core1622
lag1624
studa1625
brigadea1649
platoon1711
cohort1719
lot1725
corps1754
loo1764
squad1786
brotherhood1820
companionhood1825
troupe1825
crowd1840
companionship1842
group1845
that ilk1845
set-out1854
layout1869
confraternity1872
show1901
crush1904
we1927
familia1933
shower1936
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 245 (MED) Þe Romaynes were departed in foure parties; In þe firste partie were consuls and doctoures; in þe secounde classis were tribuni.
a1425 Adam & Eve (Wheatley) in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 91 He seyde..‘Gadere to-gydere alle my children’..And þei camen to-gydere in þre partyes bifore his preiynge place.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) i. xiii. 66 Thei of the lay parti which han vsid the hool Bible or oonli the Newe Testament in her modris langage.
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iv. f. 48 Eche partie hath his fauourers, and faythfull friendes enowe.
1602 J. Brereton Briefe Relation Discouerie Virginia 14 The parties by him set foorth, performed nothing; some of them following their owne profit elsewhere.
1661 O. Feltham Lusoria xl. 39 (heading) To the eternal memory of Charles the First, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, &c. inhumanely murthered by a perfidious party of his prevalent subjects, Jan. 30. 1648.
1687 Cynthia 131 Casting our Eyes about, we espied a Party of Men make towards us.
1773 G. White Let. 15 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 97 I..have found these birds in little parties in the autumn cantoned all along the Sussex downs.
1790 W. Bligh Narr. Mutiny on Bounty 61 About midnight the bird party returned, with only twelve noddies... I now went in search of the turtling party, who had taken great pains, but without success.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxi. 162 A bench, which..one might appropriate to the entire and unparticipated use of oneself and party.
1860 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. x. 174 Others applied to know whether he would take a reading party in the long vacation.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 141 When the party were once more on their horses.
1935 H. H. Finlayson Red Centre vii. 74 A hunting party may decide suddenly to move on to another ground.
1968 B. England Figures in Landscape 60 Tiny figures appeared on the skyline, forerunner of a larger party.
1999 Daily Mail Ski & Snowboard Dec. 27/2 The après is still exceptional and some of our party found it too rowdy.
b. South African. An officially constituted group of British settlers (esp. on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony in 1820) embarking together under the leadership of one person and initially occupying adjoining farms. Also: the area of land settled by such a group (cf. location n. 7a). Now historical.Often with modifying word, as Calton's Party, Nottingham Party, Willson's Party, etc.
ΚΠ
1819 Colonial Office Circular in G.M. Theal Rec. Cape Colony (1902) XII. 229 It is absolutely requisite that the details respecting the Individuals of your Party..should be correctly specified.
1820 R. S. Donkin Proclamation 14 May (single sheet) The Application must be made by the head of the Party to which the Settler..may belong, and must be addressed to the Landdrost of the District in which the Party is located.
a1871 J. Goldswain Chron. (1946) I. iii. 37 Wen I had recved from Mr. Wentworth 40 Rix Dolers I went to Cadles Races at Howerds partey.
1934 I. E. Edwards 1820 Settlers S. Afr. iii. 56 The parties of settlers can be divided into two distinct types. In some the leader undertook all financial responsibility.
1992 P. M. Silva in T. Shone Albany Jrnls. Introd. 21 The 167 settlers of the Nottingham Party had been located about four miles north-east of Bathurst... The party was made up of 36 farms, grouped round a central ‘village’ area (market-place and chapel-ground).
2010 L. Siebers in R. Hickey Varieties Eng. in Writing 265 In 1820 about 4,000 ‘official’ settlers, organized in 60 parties,..settled in the Albany district under the emigration scheme.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > game or match
partie1565
partyc1580
set1595
pool1693
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1927) III. ii. 7279 We ar in sic ane party [Fr. le geu] That quik or ded ouris is the land.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 145 The Mall [at Tours], which is without comparison the noblest..in Europ... Here we play'd a party or two.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iv. ii. 48 Well, I have won the party and revenge.
1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. iv. 5 He hath promis'd to make one this Evening..at a Party of Quadrille.
1732 H. Fielding Mod. Husband iii. 42 I am confident..that he lost the last Party designedly.
1770 C. Jenner Placid Man I. iii. vii. 188 Sir Isaac was within a few points of winning the party.
1796 M. Robinson Angelina II. ii. 33 Let's play a party at back-gammon.
1800 J. Moore Mordaunt III. lxx. 62 The duchess arranged a party at whist.
1816 J. Tobin Faro Table i. i. 4 Wav: I have an engagement upon my hands, which I would not break—. Bart: For any thing I suppose, but a horse-race or a party at Faro?
1852 W. H. Drummond Anc. Irish Minstrelsy vii. 50 (note) A beautiful fairy..engages him in a party at chess, in a large hall.
13.
a. A social gathering, esp. of invited guests at a person's house, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment and often held to celebrate a particular occasion. Also figurative.See also birthday party n. at birthday n. Compounds 1b, dinner party n., garden party n., and tea party n. life and soul of the party: see life n. 5a. to throw a party: see throw v.1 41.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun]
party1707
kick-upc1781
shiveau1798
shine1882
shivoo1889
kitchen tea1896
percolator1946
shake1946
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. i. 6 Give me a Man that keeps his Five Senses keen and bright as his Sword,..with his Reason as Commander at the Head of 'em, that detaches 'em by turns upon whatever Party of Pleasure agreeably offers.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 5 Aug. (1965) I. 355 I rather fancy my selfe upon partys of Pleasure.
1754 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) iv. 24 Decline their parties with civility.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. viii. ix. 320 After the example of his excellency,..I determined to give parties of my own.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xv. 93 The party was as stiff and formal as such assemblies invariably are.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xviii. 293 St. Clare was invited out to a convivial party of choice spirits.
1875 A. Keary Janet's Home ix. 80 There had been some talk between Nesta, my mother, and Mr. Armstrong, of giving a party to celebrate my eighteenth birthday.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 20 Nov. 7/3 The luncheon-party included four or five of Lord Rosebery's personal guests.
1955 M. Wheeler Still Digging (1958) 101 With the arrival of yet another stranger, myself..they threw a party.
1989 Managem. & Leveraged Buy-Out Mag. Summer 41/1 But if Moffatt thought that negotiating the buy-out was difficult then running the company after it went private was no party.
2009 K. Hill & R. Hill Rules of Engagement 15 You might like to have a party to celebrate your engagement. This can be as formal or as informal as you wish.
b. Military slang. An attack, battle, or skirmish; a military operation.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun]
service?1560
operation1749
show1892
mission1910
op1916
party1918
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 58 Some was sliced and some was halved,..And some was gutted and some was starved, When the Widow gave the party.]
1918 Stars & Stripes 15 Mar. 2/2 Tommy Hammond is a bugler. He was a liaison agent, which means a messenger, during two of the parties... And the intensity of the barrage in these parties is incredible.
1942 ‘B. J. Ellan’ Spitfire! v. 23 I just fired when something came into my sights and then turned like hell as something fired at me! What a party!
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. p. iii/3 Classic understating metaphors like ‘having a party’..had their value in time of war when men had to accept..the possibility of their own violent and horrible deaths.
1984 B. Bragg Island of No Return (song) Pick up your feet, fall in, move out, we're going to a party way down south.
c. U.S. slang. A sexual act or encounter, esp. performed with a prostitute; an orgy.
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society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > [noun] > involving excessive drinking and licentiousness
orgiac1487
Lupercal1605
orgion1613
orgy1706
Walpurgis night1823
orgiaca1859
party1926
partouze1959
1926 C. Wood & G. Goddard Dict. Amer. Slang 38 Party, amorous tumbling.
1934 J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice 13 Then two years of guys pinching your leg and leaving nickel tips and asking how about a little party tonight.
1955 H. Robbins 79 Park Ave. 181 ‘We had two parties.’..‘What do you mean by parties?’ ‘Intercourse.’
1973 D. Goines Street Players 109 We goin' to have a party, daddy?
2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand xliii. 228 [They] retain six detached bungalows as ‘Party’ or ‘Orgy Pads’ for visiting homosexuals, who are supplied with male prostitutes, [etc.].
d. the party is over: the good times are at an end; life will not be so easy from now on.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > in adversity [phrase] > easy times are at an end
the party is over1931
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > the end [phrase] > at an end
at an upshot1653
all over1664
the jig is over1777
the jig is up1800
all up1825
the last of pea-time1834
(all) washed up1923
the party is over1931
1931 ‘C. Graham’ & ‘G. Graham’ Whitey xii. 213 Mabel, the party's over... You've seen me for the last time.
1979 Guardian 7 July 9/1 ‘The party's over’, say the realists. ‘We shall have to lower our sights.’
2001 L. Rennison Knocked out by Nunga-nungas 68 ‘Gee, you've got your beret on properly.’ ‘That's because for the time being the party is over, Jas.’
e. to come (also arrive, be, etc.) late to the party and variants: to be involved in something at a later stage than others; to learn something that others have known about for a while.In quot. 1944 as part of an extended metaphor.
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1944 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. 21/2 To come late to the party is never very wise. The new-born are always doing it. They are always arriving late into a world warmed up by their elders.
1965 Washington Post 15 July d23/5 ABC-TV came late to this party. The network didn't decide to try a ‘live-on-tape’ show until last summer.
2006 S. China Morning Post (Nexis) 16 June 6 The sell-off in the stock market over the past five weeks has been painful, especially for buyers who arrived late to the party.
2015 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 9 Jan. 2 I realise I'm late to the party on watching most of the superhero films released over the past 14 years (so late to the party, that not only has it well and truly finished, the house the party was in has been sold, demolished, and turned into a car park).
f. to keep the party clean: to act responsibly or decently; to conform to accepted standards of behaviour.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > behave well [verb (intransitive)] > behave with propriety
civilize1606
to walk a chalk-line1855
to keep the party clean1955
1955 First Fifty Years of Rhodes Trust 173 There was always a queue, of all ranks, for these [sc. the dance hall bathrooms], and Rhodes House did its best, in the hallowed phrase, to ‘keep the party clean’.
1978 D. Murphy Place Apart xi. 243 Their campaign is..a conventional war, and they want to keep the party clean.
2001 Evening News (Edinburgh) (Nexis) 22 May 20 After their day's sport..everybody will repair to Cosmo's for refreshment and songs and gags from Happy... Happy will keep the party clean.
g. to bring (something) to the party: = to bring (something) to the table at table n. Phrases 9.
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1978 Chem. Week 29 Mar. 23/3 We want to be involved because we can bring something to the party. Sometimes it's patents, sometimes process knowledge.
1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic vii. 167 The bandleader's art is a specialized one... It is the ability to weld musicians together to realize the leader's vision, while simultaneously allowing that vision to be enriched and inspired by what the individual players are able to bring to the party.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Sept. iii. 10/5 Two copywriters applying for jobs at an advertising agency are asked what they would bring to the party.
h. party and play n. U.S. slang (originally and chiefly in gay usage) sexual activity sustained, enhanced, or facilitated by the use of disinhibiting and stimulant drugs; the practice or habit of engaging in this type of sexual activity.Often in the context of group sex between men at parties arranged for this purpose; cf. chemsex n.
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1997 Bay Area Reporter 27 Nov. (Personal advts. section) 49/6 Husky cigar dad bottom pig..into party and play.
2002 F. Ona Bougie Babies & Bangy Boyz (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Calif., San Francisco) iv. 121 pNp refers to ‘party and play’ which among certain groups of gay men means taking drugs, usually methamphetamines, and having sex at the same time.
2016 @urbangaygriot 29 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) As a gay man, party and play (PnP) is prevalent in our culture. I admit I have certain reservations but I can't police what you do.
14. With modifying word (as good, desirable, etc.): a match or offer; (also) a prospective partner in marriage. Cf. match n.1 8 and parti n. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [noun] > marriageable person > with reference to means or position
marriagec1400
party1492
match1586
parti1779
1492 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 244/1 Þat þai offerit þe said malcum a sufficient partij & mariage but disparising.
1576 Edinb. Test. IV. f. 148, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Partie Als lang as ony of thame clethis nocht with ane partie nor mareis.
1655 Theophania 169 She easily condescended to so advantagious a party.
1789 C. Smith Ethelinde V. x. 204 Try..to make him look upon either of your daughters as a desirable party for him.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxx. 296 A girl in our society accepts the best party which offers itself.
15. A decision, resolution, agreement. Chiefly in to take a party [compare French prendre son parti (1670; earlier as prendre parti to choose one side over another: a1592)] . Later also: to make a party. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > resolve or decide [verb (intransitive)]
choosec1320
definec1374
to take advisementa1393
appointc1440
conclude1452
to come to (an) anchor?1473
deliber1485
determine1509
resolvea1528
rest1530
deliberate1550
point1560
decide1572
to set (up) one's rest1572
to set down one's rest1578
to make account1583
to fix the staff1584
to take a party1585
fadge1592
set1638
determinate1639
pitch1666
devise1714
pre-resolve1760
settle1782
to make up one's mind1859
the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > make types of choice [verb (intransitive)] > choose between alternatives
to take a party1760
opt1853
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xix. 23 The souldiers..setting al honor aside,..concluded together to take some party.
1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend i. 12 I am not come to ask Council about my Marriage, my Party is taken.
1760 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 6–7 He had two parties to take; either to keep within the town,..or to march out... He resolved on the latter party.
1767 S. Johnson Let. 12 Feb. (1992) I. 279 Don't forget the party we made to Dine at the Mitre next Tuesday.
16. A proposal, an offer. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan > a proposed plan or a project
propositiona1382
present?a1400
motiona1425
pleaa1500
action1533
propose1568
project1582
proposala1629
projection1633
party1653
projecture1658
scheme1719
ad referendum1753
swim1860
action plan1889
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xlix. 241 As such a one I accept of the party thou dost present me with, obliging myself to render thee the two passages of Savady free.
1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto (1834) v. 241 Manfred accepted the party, and, to the no small grief of Isabella, accompanied her to her apartment.
Compounds
C1.
a. With the sense ‘in part, partial, partially’ (cf. sense 1b). Cf. part adv., parcel adv.† party-bawd n. Obsolete† party-fulfilling n. Obsolete† party-halting n. Obsolete
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1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. iii. sig. G2v My deare Delicious compeere, and my party-baud.
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1691 T. Beverley Thousand Years' Kingdom 30 For all the swelling Rhetorick and seeming Hyperboles,..had but Party-fulfillings before.
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1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iii. sig. G4 Vnfold What by thy party halting of thy speech Thy knowledge can discouer.
party payment n.
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > payment by instalment or part-payment
party payment1495
part payment1496
estallment1738
instalment1776
deferred payment1863
time payment1927
1495–6 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 220 Item, payd to thomas Mundys,..wyche he stoppyth in his hondes in party payment that is owyng hym for nayll, the quitrent that belongyth to owre chyrch.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 140 In partie payment of the sayd warraunt.
1879 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 50 In which event party payment should not be asked.
1999 St. John's Law Rev. (Nexis) 73 Some court systems requiring party payment assess the fees equally between the parties.
b. † party verdict n. Obsolete one person's share or part of a joint verdict.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > share of
party verdict1597
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 227 Thy sonne is banisht vpon good aduise, Whereto thy tong a party verdict gaue.
a1796 R. Burns Pendennis in Compl. Wks. (1859) 247 Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent party verdicts of condemnation or acquittal.
C2. With the sense ‘forming the boundary between areas belonging to different owners’, as †party arch, party fence, party fence-wall, party structure, etc. (figurative in quot. 1767). Cf. party wall n.
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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 > structure separating buildings or land
party arch1666
party fence-wall1666
party structure1666
party wall1674
1666 Act 18 & 19 Chas. II c. 8 §6 That there shall be Partie walls and Partie peeres sett out equally on each Builders ground.
1767 A. Crosswell Comfort in Christ 6 Our enlarged hearts, leaping over party fences and hedges, would run away in love and affection to all the saints scattered abroad.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 267 They must have a party-wall, with a party-arch or arches of the thickness of a brick and a half at the least, to the first and second rate.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 363 Proprietors of houses and grounds must..give three months' notice to pull down old party-walls, party-arches, party fence-walls, or quarter partitions.
1855 Act 18 & 19 Victoria c. 122 §3 ‘Party structure’ shall include party walls, and also partitions, arches, floors, and other structures separating buildings, stories, or rooms which belong to different owners.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 618/2 Party fence (or wall).., A fence or wall separating adjoining properties and owned equally by the two proprietors.
1976 S. R. Simpson Land law & Registration viii. 127 Where contiguous parcels are created and developed at the same time the dividing fence will probably be a ‘party’ fence.
1998 CSM (R.I.C.S.) May 19/2 Photographic records and a schedule of condition in respect of the party structure will be important.
C3. General attributive (in sense 9, formerly sometimes meaning ‘partisan’).
a. † party-dogger n. Obsolete
party administration n.
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1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 56 The Abettors of a Party-Administration.
1876 S. Eliot Hist. U.S. i. 309 (heading) Party administrations. Washington's administration was our only really national one.
1976 Survey Spring 57 He embarked on a successful career in party administration, attaining the rank of oblast First Secretary.
2003 Australian (Nexis) 6 Mar. 11 Bob Hawke and Neville Wran never had to experience the petty tyranny of party administration.
party author n.
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1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 457. ¶4 Our Party-Authors will also afford me a great Variety of Subjects.
1993 M. Meyer Politics of Music in 3rd Reich 201 Wagner-Régeny finally dropped Neher and collaborated with a prominent and successful party author, Eberhard Wolfgang Möller.
party badge n.
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1830 C. E. Phelan Let. 18 Sept. in H. Anderson Life & Lett. C. Anderson (1854) v. 151 I would gladly see every Orange flag thrown into the flames; not relinquishing the principles, but only the party badge.
1997 China Q. Sept. 629 On visits to New Zealand Alley made a point of emphasizing his New Zealand Communist Party membership, and sported the party badge prominently.
party boss n.
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1879 Washington Post 7 June 2/2 The country will not recognize the meek and lowly singer of sacred songs and patron of camp meetings in this suddenly developed party boss.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker viii. 130 He told me the blind man was a distinguished party boss, called by some the King of San Francisco.
1938 Ann. Reg. 1937 320 The men and the movement, the party and the party bosses, the national aims of the Third Reich.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Oct. 24/3 The party bosses found themselves unable to trust each other as supreme leader, and ended up elevating a pliant-seeming Indira as the prime minister of India.
party card n.
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1888 Polit. Sci. Q. 3 663 Efforts were made to ascertain how persons voted.., by delivering party cards to the voters to give up at the booths.
1970 Guardian 10 Mar. 13/1 Union leaders must talk to Ministers, whatever the shade of their party cards.
2003 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. i. 6 Stories about bonfires of party cards being ripped up are a lie.
party caucus n.
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1843 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Apr. 387/2 The inner sanctums of our own private party caucuses.
1882 W. M. Thayer From Log Cabin to White House 300 Garfield..was nominated by acclamation at the party caucus, and unanimously elected.
1977 N.Z. Herald 5 Jan. i. 6/3 The party caucus has long functioned as part and parcel of New Zealand politics.
1996 Independent 25 July i. 13/3 The overriding party caucus system no longer reflects their wishes, certainly as far as the young and ethnic minorities are concerned.
party chief n.
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a1742 W. Somervile Chace (1749) iv. 86 As Party-Chiefs in Senates who preside.
1851 Southern Q. Rev. Jan. 39 It is something of a commentary upon the magnanimity of party and party chiefs [etc.]
1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) ix. §2. 120 The party chiefs used the mob more effectually for their own factious and selfish purposes.
1988 R. Basu Hours before Dawn xx. 168 As the right-hand man of the district party chief he had been closely involved in the war operation.
2003 Times of India (Nexis) 13 Mar. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and party chief Venkaiah Naidu will hold the fort in the Capital.
party conference n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of
parliament?a1400
diet1471
symposiac1603
by-conference1625
guestling1629
sanhedrim1653
comitia1684
symposium1784
assembly1794
powwow1812
neighbourhood meeting1823
colloquium1861
congress1861
party conference1875
indaba1894
press conference1908
case conference1913
story conference1920
telemeeting1973
poster session1974
START1981
presser1988
1875 Appletons' Jrnl. Nov. 672/1 A party conference is a ‘caucus’.
1930 Economist 30 Aug. 396/2 At the Labour Party Conference..resolutions will be discussed.
1969 Listener 12 June 827/1 The Party Conference defeated Gaitskell..on the question of nuclear weapons.
2000 Times 30 Aug. i. 10/5 It will turn out to be right that we have reserved on major announcements for September, October and the party conference.
party congress n.
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1891 Econ. Jrnl. 1 695 Over all stood the annually-summoned party congress.
1954 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties ii. i. 273 After 1935 the army played a part of first-rate importance in the party Congresses at Nuremberg.
1999 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 15 Oct. 10/2 A wholesale changing of the guard will not take place until the 16th Party Congress in 2002.
party contest n.
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1826 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 450 It sets in a strong light the highmindedness, and independence of party considerations, of that tribunal, which is often the last resort in party contests.
1840 J. S. Mill in Edinb. Rev. 72 15 All the eagerness and violence of party contests in France.
1913 Times 15 July 9/3 The Lancashire man is a sturdy politician and loves a party contest fought out with zest.
1998 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 70 265 The many divisive and rapacious party contests that threatened the eighteenth-century constitution.
party convention n.
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1846 Amer. Rev. Jan. 100/1 Yet a party convention seizes upon this ‘great American question’, with the sordid intent of making votes out of it.
1881 Nation (N.Y.) 33 4 The slipshod method in which the Vice-President is commonly chosen by party conventions.
1920 Times 1 July 17/6 The sub-committee [are] engaged in drafting a platform to be adopted by the Party Convention.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 1 May 4/5 The rural followers of William Jennings Bryan fought Al Smith's city legions at the party convention in New York City.
2001 N.Y. Times 29 July i. 18/4 Issues like free trade, balanced budgets and campaign finance reform were the big debate items at party conventions.
party cry n.
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1865 J. R. Lowell in Wks. (1890) V. 274 Mr. Johnson has chosen to revive the paltry party-cries.
1913 Times 4 Feb. 10/1 Members of the Opposition..were ‘fobbed off’ with certain party cries as if those concluded the argument.
2002 Irish News (Nexis) 5 July 6 Party cries were shouted by both sides and soon several tussles took place before a large body of police arrived with drawn batons.
party discipline n.
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1827 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 433 We speak of a party discipline in England, which enables the leaders in Parliament to dispense pretty cavalierly with the speaking services of their adherents.
1830 Deb. Congr. U.S. 9 Feb. 149/2 The provisional power of removal from office by a President..[should not] be exercised..in the corrupting spirit of ‘party discipline’.
1933 Discovery Feb. 64/1 Party-discipline and party-loyalty do sometimes exercise a prejudicial, cramping or numbing effect on the mind and actions of individual members of the House of Commons.
1996 Church Times 13 Dec. 10/3 In the House of Lords..Whips cannot impose party discipline by threats, bribes or cajolery.
party division n.
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1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 2 Maintaining, or renewing our Party-Divisions.
1874 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch v. xlvi. 342 Will's articles and speeches naturally recommended him in families which the new strictness of party division had marked off on the side of Reform.
1920 Times 3 July 39/6 The race question was never a proper subject of party division.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 44 865 Gender has become almost as important as other traditional and well-known demographic bases of party division.
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1770 Gentleman's Mag. 40 121 The Earl of Bute..had not for a great while gone out of his own house, without being followed by one of those party-doggers.
party fury n.
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1705 D. Defoe Storm in Writings II. 92 Storms which the Monarch more than Death or Battel fear'd, When Party Fury shook his Throne.
1895 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 50/2 Party fury ran high over domestic questions.
1936 Times 30 Nov. 13/2 In the old days of party fury, [the debates] might well have been made an occasion for violent Opposition attacks.
2000 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 14 July 4 NSW Labor's right wing remains determined to engineer a key role for Mr John Della Bosca..despite party fury.
party-giver n.
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1834 Metrop. Mag. Mar. 311 The dancing-party world may be divided into the party-givers and the party-goers.
1894 Harper's Mag. July 195/2 A stretch of street without..any sign or sound of party-givers.
1955 College Eng. 17 64/1 Van Vechten..was one of the key figures of the Twenties: essayist, music critic,..party-giver, social catalyst,..and (later) photographer.
1998 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. iv. 2/1 A tip to holiday party-givers: If you are planning on serving pecorino Romano cheese, stock up now.
2003 Guardian (Nexis) 3 Mar. 6 She is also a legendary party-giver.
party image n.
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1957 J. H. Fenton Politics in Border States 189 The problem for the political leaders..is to make the party image approximate the preconceptions of the voters of both regions.
1999 Daily Tel. 29 Apr. 4/5 Party image crafters had gone out of their way to create a positive mood for the event.
party label n.
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1888 Polit. Sci. Q. 3 119 The party label in almost every case commends the candidate to the electors.
1931 G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism (new ed.) p. xiv Candidates with a party label, pledged to vote for their party right or wrong.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 44 676/1 A haphazard, hollow assessment of various party leaders or party labels.
party leader n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > engagement in > person engaged in > party leader
header1660
party leader1705
1705 D. Defoe Dyet Poland ii. 38 Now he's the Party Leader of the Day.
1882 A. Bain James Mill ii. 60 That his father would have made an able minister or party-leader, we must cheerfully allow.
1974 E. Ambler Dr. Frigo i. 56 The loss of our Party leader..was a demoralizing blow.
2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 29 July 17 He spent much of last week..reassuring party leaders that while Bush's job-approval ratings may be sliding a bit, he remains personally popular.
party lie n.
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1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 507. ¶2 That abominable Practice of Party-lying:..a Party-lie is grown as fashionable an Entertainment, as a lively Catch or a merry Story.
1828 R. Montgomery Age Reviewed (ed. 2) ii. 263 A magic quill, for pand'ring party lies, To heap on virtuous heads foul calumnies.
1991 Independent (Nexis) 26 July 5 The dispute over the Labour Party ‘lie’ that trusts are not really still in the NHS.
party-list n.
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1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 291/2 This voting..carried on by party-lists on differently coloured cards is practically open.
1919 Times 25 July 11/7 Instead, therefore, of being obliged to vote solidly for one party list, the electors will be given considerable latitude.
1968 Listener 20 June 806/2 Freedom and participation in one's place of work are to replace constituency or ‘party list’ democratic choice.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 44 119/2 The first election using party-list PR.
party loyalty n.
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1781 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Party Loyalty in Poet. Wks. (1870) VIII. 447 (heading) Party loyalty... The First and Second George were wise, And understood a faction's price.
1882 A. Bain James Mill iv. 125 He set a good example of perfect party loyalty, combined with the assertion of difference of opinion on particular questions.
1968 W. Safire New Lang. Politics 321/1 ‘Sometimes party loyalty asks too much,’ said John F. Kennedy to a Democratic friend.
2000 N.Y. Times 9 May a22/1 Texas has a tradition of bipartisanship and chauvinism that for some Democrats outweighs any national party loyalties.
party malice n.
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1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino xii. 5 Boldly th' Assaults of Envy he defies, Knows how their Party-Malice to despise.
1747 T. Gilbert Poems Several Occasions 114 Great Dryden next, whose lofty genius rose Above the party-malice of his foes.
1862 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 340/2 The ‘United States Gazette’ followed up the thing with a good, single-minded party malice which cannot be surpassed in these present days.
1990 Amer. Hist. Rev. 95 1548/1 There might be opposition to his plans that sprang from grounds more substantial than party malice.
party manager n.
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1845 Amer. Rev. June 569/2 They were gladly used by the party managers as a show and means of violence.
1881 Bradstreet's 4 305 The voters of Kings county have usually been relied upon by party managers.
1920 Times 10 Apr. 8/4 I can imagine nothing more difficult or searching than the position of a party manager.
1997 A. Barnett This Time ii. 54 [The MP] was not allowed near this one by party managers.
party measure n.
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1834 W. G. Simms Guy Rivers I. iii. 33 He..actually gave far less of his consideration to his own and only child than he did to..the success of a party measure.
1908 E. F. Benson Climber 143 Edgar shall bring in a Bill for the extinction of the bored in the House of Lords. It won't be a party measure.
1996 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 22 Mar. (Commentary section) n24 Party leaders couldn't guarantee their support of a party measure.
party meeting n.
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1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. I. xv. 174 A caucus is a political, and what is in practice the same thing, a party meeting.
1976 S. Hynes Auden Generation v. 138 It's a Battlefield..is full of Communists, and a long scene is devoted to a Party meeting.
1996 India Today 30 June 18/2 What followed was an acrimonious 12-hour JD legislature party meeting.
party member n.
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1839 F. Lieber Man. Polit. Ethics II. v. ii. 429 Citizens..may be classified, I think, under the following heads: Apathists, neutrals or independents, party-members, partisans or zealots, [etc.].
1920 S. Lewis Main St. x. 116 He's a socialist..a regular old-line party-member.
2001 Business Week 16 July 53/2 The go-it-alone Fox has alienated many Panistas by failing to name key party members to his Cabinet.
party membership n.
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1900 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 6 69 They tended to..give voice to the wishes of the party membership as a whole.
1972 Listener 20 July 69/2 According to the proposed Democratic Party charter, there would be a national dues-paying party membership.
2000 J. Caughie Television Drama iii. 60 The British Communist Party had made uncritical loyalty to the Soviet Union an article of faith for Party membership.
party minion n.
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1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) III. 280 If any is so zealous To be a party-minion.
1813 T. J. Dibdin Metrical Hist. Eng. II. xi. 177 Whate'er their designations may denote, Remember, reader, I'm no party minion.
1999 C. Thubron In Siberia (2000) iv. 93 A local Party minion had purloined funds or wangled a holiday on the Black Sea.
party monger n.
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1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 61 The Magick of the Party-mongers.
1860 E. K. Washington Echoes of Europe 18 It would seem to be getting high time for the people to oust the miserable brood of Presidency seekers and party mongers.
1996 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 31 Oct. (Calendar section) f1/2 We need a national symbol, somebody who can be above the political party mongers.
party pamphlet n.
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1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. iii. 418 Nor have these publications been all party pamphlets, the wretched offspring of falshood and venality. View more context for this quotation
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xviii. 299 The history of Rome and Greece, when written by their scholars, degenerates into English party pamphlets.
1993 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 101 554 A plentiful supply of party pamphlets on the subject of liability reform.
party paper n.
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1751 W. Warburton in Wks. of Alexander Pope V. 164 He began under twenty with furious Party-papers.
1812 I. D'Israeli Calamities of Authors I. 11 Arnall, whose mature genius for scurrilous party-papers broke forth in his tender nonage.
1992 S. White After Gorbachev (ed. 3) 239 Pravda noted the heavy responsibilities that party papers had to accept in these difficult times.
2001 Far Eastern Econ. Rev. 8 Feb. 25/2 The party paper blasted ‘the old backward way of thinking’ among party cadres.
party passion n.
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1715 J. Browne Royal Prophetess in State & Misc. Poems II. 96 These furious Words, from Party Passion rais'd, The Queen and Council with surprize amaz'd.
1801 T. Jefferson Let. 29 Mar. in Writings (1984) 1089 The instances will be few, and governed by strict rule, & not party passion.
1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 193 If party passions, doctrines, and ambitions were to dominate our life for any lengthy period, [etc.].
1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 16 Nov. 16 A clear sense of distinct national identity has persisted here..which should not be forgotten when party passions advertise our domestic divisions.
party point n.
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1849 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Sept. 269 The..competent leader of the democrats on all mooted party points.
1985 H. Kinnaird Cure for Unemployment (BNC) 6 The opposition will offer convincing arguments that they are wrong, seemingly sniping at one another to score party points.
party prejudice n.
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1742 D. McGregore Spirits of Present Day Tried. 26 Be exceeding careful that party prejudice don't bias your judgement.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 174 [He] is the slave of his inveterate party prejudices.
1994 Jrnl. Operational Res. Soc. 45 1348 Dogma supported by party prejudice rather than justified by rational analysis.
party press n.
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1833 New-Eng. Mag. 5 144 I do not know, that party spirit..has ever been higher, or the party press been more virulent, on both sides.
1842 C. Dickens Let. 1 Apr. (1974) III. 176 The silly, drivelling, slanderous, wicked, monstrous Party Press.
1999 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 71 832 Party press reports of women's section meetings reveal that the overwhelming majority of ordinary members were married.
party quarrel n.
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1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 50 By such profitable Condescensions on either side..they would lay down all Party-quarrels.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. iv. 161 The great body of the people, of course, did not sympathise in that, which, after all, to them, was a party quarrel.
1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 July 24/4 The prolonging of party quarrels by the two-thirds rule had long since accentuated cultural differences between Democrats and Republicans.
party question n.
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1803 Deb. Congr. U.S. 6 Jan. (1851) 337 This ought not to be made a party question.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 22/1 They know that by making confirmation of nominees a party question they are deliberately debauching the public service.
1950 Times 3 June 5/3 Since 1945 the [Belgian] question royale has been developed into a party question of crucial importance.
2002 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Sept. 20 He relished the face-to-face party question sessions that were a surprise success of the election campaign.
party rage n.
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1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino xii. 7 Party-Rage, to Force of Truth gives Way.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby vi. 284 Brute and blindfold party rage.
1974 Amer. Hist. Rev. 79 693 ‘Bigotry and party rage’ did lead to mass resignations from the society on several occasions.
2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 4 Oct. (headline) Crean to face party rage over reforms.
party rally n.
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1850 S. Mason Speech 14 June in Rep. Ohio Convent. Deb. 1850–51 437 This great question..is a proposition to be sustained, or not by argument—not by a party rally.
1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn i. 16 No party rallies, no Youth Movements.
2003 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 21 Oct. 14 He dropped in for a party rally in Fayetteville, spoke only to the assembled faithful and slipped back out of town like a man on the run.
party secret n.
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1802 J. Croswell New World Planted ii. iv. 16 We scorn to house a party secret there—Our thoughts were issuing in free discourse, On peace and friendship with king Massasoit.
1939 Times 28 Feb. 16/3 As an old conspirator Krupskaya knew how to keep party secrets.
1998 Mod. China 24 358 Female students..confessed to being hired courtesans undermining Communist discipline and uncovering party secrets.
party woman n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > attachment to party > one attached to party
partyman1701
party woman1725
partyist1854
1725 J. Swift Let. to Pope 29 Sept. in Lett. Dr. Swift (1741) 36 Fortune is both blind and deaf, and a Court lady, but then she is a most damnable Party-woman.
1836 C. G. F. Gore Mrs. Armytage I. xviii. 266 Without interest in politics, she became a party woman.
1999 Progressive (Nexis) 1 Nov. 32 One party woman, Lil Carlson, brought her guy..up on charges for male chauvinism.
party work n.
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a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) II. xix. 42 My father publickly was violent enough in his Whiggism..and my Mother kept herself quite aloof from all party work.
1927 Communist Party Training (Communist Party Great Brit.) 117 A fraction is composed of all Party members inside any unit or representative committee of a non-party organisation, united for the purpose of conducting Party work in same.
2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Feb. 21/4 The result was a clandestine apparat of spies who knew each other from Party work.
party worker n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine > party worker or hack
party hack1848
worker1873
party worker1874
tadpole1880
precinct worker1881
1874 N. Amer. Rev. July 41 Offering places in the civil service as a prize for efficient party workers.
1935 N. Mitchison We have been Warned i. 51 The thick sense of urgency and seriousness which was beginning to show among the Party workers.
2000 D. Oliver Mozambique in Salvo for Afr. 74 Outside the ‘Dynamising Group’ offices a party worker harangues a mass meeting.
party writer n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material
metaphrast1610
lasher1611
pastoralist1619
amorist1642
travel writer1711
party writer1715
Poor Richard1757
murdermonger1785
manners-painter1807
institutionalist1817
paroemiographer1823
nautical1831
nonsense-writera1835
recaster1841
serialist1845
snobographer1848
librettist1862
palindromist1872
fragmentist1874
text-man1900
scriptwriter1911
paradoxographer1917
absurdist1929
blogger1999
weblogger1999
1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 567. ¶3 Our Party-writers are so sensible of the secret Virtue of an Innuendo to recommend their Productions.
1849 J. Stephen Ess. Eccl. Biogr. (1850) II. 403 The whole tribe of party writers, diurnal and hebdomadal.
1996 Times (Nexis) 16 Oct. Mr Yao..was a party writer in Shanghai churning out hortatory essays.
party zeal n.
ΚΠ
1705 D. Defoe Dyet Poland ii. 41 Thus fir'd with Party Zeal, he Read the Bill.
1859 National Rev. July 169 We may see something of this excessive party-zeal in Burke.
1973 Econ. Hist. Rev. 26 707 In Leeds it petered out when financial resources were depleted and party zeal exhausted.
2002 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 23 June (Metro section) 4 b Four Republicans..demonstrated their party zeal by qualifying for the 4th District congressional race.
party zealot n.
ΚΠ
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 445. ¶6 The insignificant Party Zealots on both sides.
1847 J. K. Paulding & W. I. Paulding Antipathies iv. iii. 275 A lover of your country and her institutions, yet not a party-zealot, nor a man of sectional prejudices.
1998 Slav. Rev. 57 345 Party zealots called for sending them to concentration camps, replacing them with workers.
b.
party-bound n. and adj.
ΚΠ
1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xvi. 293 The relation which has a name, is that which is borne by the party favoured to the party bound: that which is borne by the party bound to the party favoured has not any.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 Dec. 4/3 The one honest solution which is constantly shirked by those who are either party-bound or who..hope for a secular solution.
1999 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 175/1 The embarrassing admissions were not party-bound.
party-making n. and adj.
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1651 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James v. 550 Party-making and faction maketh men blind.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier ii. 154 I had enough of Party-making, and was quite sick with Indignation at the Cowardise of the Men.
1984 Amer. Hist. Rev. 89 1095/2 The budget as a party-making issue.
C4. (In sense 13a.)
a.
party dress n.
ΚΠ
1842 Southern Literary Messenger 8 495/1 Charlotte stood before her glass, in her splendid party-dress, glittering with gems.
1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy did at School x. 205 Elsie is much excited over the party dresses which Mrs. Hall is having made for her.
1926 Times 9 Mar. 13/5 Mademoiselle in search of a party dress or a dress for a wedding will find just what she wants in artificial silk for 225f.
2001 Art Room Catal. Autumn 4/2 This graphic, minimalist jewellery..looks just as splendid with jeans or a party dress.
party frock n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > for specific purpose > other
ball-dress1710
presentation dress1836
party frock1858
tea-gown1878
semi-evening gown1891
little black frock1898
cocktail dress1921
cocktail frock1926
little black dress1928
practice dress1934
1858 Harper's Mag. Mar. 517/2 If the pretty one was pretty in her sleeveless and neckless party frock, she was divine in a home-dress.
1927 Times 30 Nov. 17/1 (caption) Party frock in georgette, taffeta, and net.
1995 Independent 7 Nov. (Suppl.) 13/1 Bold floral summer dresses and overblown pearl-encrusted party frocks.
party game n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun]
jeu de société1793
parlour game1854
party game1929
1929 G. Mitchell Myst. Butcher's Shop xvii. 192 Idiotic invitations to play silly party games with pencils and paper.
1996 Just Seventeen 14 Aug. 27/1 Spin the bottle, saucy party game and the perfect excuse for a snog-up.
2002 Newsweek 25 Mar. 48/3 There's even a nerdy party game called Google whacking, where you try to come up with a two-word search that yields a single result.
party mood n.
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1939 F. Ryerson June Mad 166 He knows nothing of what is going on and is, naturally, still in a party mood.
1973 H. McCloy Change of Heart ix. 104 I'm hardly in a party mood. My father is still unconscious.
2000 N.Y. Times 20 Sept. h16/4 Last year, everyone was in a party mood about the wild success of the Internet.
party record n.
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1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 10 Under-the-Counter ‘party’ records provide a traditional version of The Eddystone Light.
2001 Muzik Jan. 99/4 The only Latin party record you'll ever need.
party thrower n.
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1961 How-to-do-it-Encycl. (Mechanix Illustr.) I. 12 If you are a party thrower, you may need added capacity.
2000 S. Fallon & M. Rothschild World Food: France (Lonely Planet Guide) 119 The party-thrower..began to set the dishes out on the buffet tables.
b.
party-frocked adj.
ΚΠ
1960 Times 3 Aug. 5/2 A juvenile delinquent cousin who appears..party-frocked in the second [act].
1997 Belfast News-let. (Nexis) 15 Apr. 31 The party-frocked, dinner-suited guests will have to clamber their way up a vertical floor to the exit.
party-giving n. and adj.
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1826 T. H. Lister Granby I. xvii. 258 Does she ever engage in any party-giving on her own account?
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 May 345/2 A sensible guide to party-giving of every sort.
2003 Indianapolis Star (Nexis) 5 Mar. 1 e Party-giving veterans agree the invitation sets the tone.
party-hunting n. and adj.
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1829 J. Bentham Abridged Petit. Justice 53 in Justice & Codif. Petit. This species of chase:—party-hunting, to wit, and witness-hunting:—a chase in which the fox..is the hunter, and his object is to catch, not as early, but as late as possible.
1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Sept. a22/5 The Times carried a story about doubling the number of party-hunting permits to cut the deer herd in New York State.
2002 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 22 Sept. (Local section) 23 In contrast to his past as a party-hunting wild child, new father Jason Donovan now likes to spend his nights with his family.
C5. † party call n. Obsolete a formal social visit.† party-taker n. Obsolete rare = partaker n. 1.† party war n. Obsolete rare a war conducted by small detachments of troops, rather than by whole armies; cf. sense 10a.
party and party adj. Law designating the legal costs incurred by a successful litigant, to the payment of which his or her opponent may be ordered to contribute; designating something relating to such costs.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > between parties in litigation [phrase]
party and party1895
1895 Daily News 31 Oct. 5/6 The levelling down of solicitor and client costs to the party-and-party scale.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 May 1/3 The distinction which is known as ‘party and party’ costs and ‘solicitor and client’ costs.
1993 Butterworth's Company Law Cases 670 The relevant mortgage deed..alternatively provided for all costs, charges and expenses ‘whether or not they would be allowed under a taxation on a party and party or solicitor and own client taxation by the court’.
party bag n. a small bag of gifts given to those who attend a (children's) party to take away; also in extended use.
ΚΠ
1966 G. Parks Choice of Weapons xviii. 191 Sally took one look and immediately lost both her earrings...They had accidentally fallen into Sally's party bag.
1986 in K. Nelson Event Knowl. v. 113 We had cake. And that's what all birthday parties happen to have. And you get party bags.
2002 Independent 15 Mar. i. 1/5 (heading) Oscar presenters will be given £14,000 party bags.
party boat n. a boat that can be hired by parties of people for sightseeing, fishing, etc.
ΚΠ
1877 Manufacturer & Builder 9 68/3 These craft are adapted for use as racers, pleasure boats, party boats, fishing boats, ferry-boats, etc.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 11 June 8/2 A narrow river crowded..with pleasure-craft—launches and ‘party-boats’, safe tubs and tipply canoes.
1963 J. T. Rowland North to Adventure i. 27 She [sc. a sloop] had a long, open cockpit and a small cuddy, since it was his intention to rent her as a party boat.
2000 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 4 Jan. 61/4 He hooked a tog weighing 13¼ pounds from the Belmar party boat.
party-boating n. the use of a party boat for sightseeing, fishing, etc.
ΚΠ
1937 E. Hemingway To have & have Not i. i. 28 I..went party-boating and broke out this sword-fishing in Cuba.
2002 Austin (Texas) Amer. Statesman (Nexis) 25 Aug. (Travel section) d2 The excursions, like parasailing, snorkeling and party boating, were reasonably priced.
party boy n. a (young) man who is a keen and frequent partygoer; (hence) one with a hedonistic lifestyle.
ΚΠ
1972 J. Mosedale Football vi. 81 He also won a reputation as a party boy.
1997 N.Y. Mag. 3 Nov. 45/1 Perhaps one reason Tang has retained this party-boy image is that his business interests have grown quite comfortably out of his personal indulgences: cigars, food, clothes, art.
2003 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 12 Mar. 19 She said her son had told her that Alexander was a ‘spoiled party boy who never cracked a book or attended a class’.
ΚΠ
1858 M. C. Conkling Amer. Gentleman's Guide Politeness & Fashion 48 His grand entrée this morning..was, no doubt, occasioned by his having heard some one say that, what vulgar people style a ‘party call’, was incumbent upon him after my reception.
1899 K. Chopin Awakening xxxiii. 252 Then in the afternoon Mrs. Merriman and Mrs. Highcamp had made their ‘party call’. Edna felt that they might have dispensed with the formality.
1910 J. W. Tompkins Mothers & Fathers 144 They only came twice, and those were party calls.
party cell n. an organizational unit of a political party, esp. the Communist Party.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > group within a party
wing1879
party cell1931
tendency1974
1931 Times 13 Oct. 13/6 The party cell decides everything beforehand and arranges a meeting, where resolutions are passed unanimously.
1996 Japan Times 29 Apr. 14/2 The document says party cells should be set up in all foreign joint venture companies.
party faithful n. (also, of the Communist Party, Party faithful) originally U.S. (chiefly with the) the most loyal supporters of a political party collectively.
ΚΠ
1910 M. Ostrogorski Democracy & Party Syst. in U.S. ix. 200 In the evening the houses of all the party faithful are illuminated.
1951 Far Eastern Q. 11 83 Both [sc. works by Mao and Liu] undertook to provide the tactical and political directives to guide the Party faithful in the decisive days ahead.
2001 Times 29 Mar. i. 19/1 He was accused of snubbing the King and Queen of Norway..in favour of a sushi dinner with the party faithful.
party favour n. North American a small and usually inexpensive gift given to party guests.
ΚΠ
1905 J. S. McLain Alaska & Klondike vi. 131 All the guests [at a potlatch] must be provided with gifts—here probably originated the idea of party ‘favours’.
1988 S. E. McKay New Child Safety Handbk. iv. 69/1 Depending on the age of the children, good party favors include mini-books,..boxes of animal crackers, stickers, hair barrettes, or crayons.
2008 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News (Nexis) 9 Oct. Other House staffers were also enlisted to help with invitations, menus and party favors such as personalized bottles of wine.
party feeling n. (a) partisanship; spec. the feeling of solidarity with and support for one's political party; (b) a feeling or atmosphere of festivity.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > partisanship or factionalism
partiality1520
partaking1533
factiona1538
factiousness1572
siding1600
side-taking1626
parting1652
partying1681
party spirit1705
party1726
party feeling1796
partyism1831
partisanship1834
factionism1848
partisanism1850
factionalism1855
partisanry1889
1796 J. Farington Diary 23 Apr. (1978) II. 529 No party feeling would prevent the Academy from doing strict justice to the best designs.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 238 All those in the upper ranks, whom strong party-feeling, or a desire of court-interest, does not attach to their standard.
1909 H. Zimmern tr. F. Nietzsche Human, All-too-Human I. 181 The old obsequiousness..still survives in party-feeling and party-discipline.
1972 J. Brown Chancer ii. 30 They might be going..to meet a pusher or they might be going just for a few spliffs and to catch the party feeling.
1999 Amer. Hist. Rev. 104 1665/1 The memory of party feeling in the first fifteen years of the nineteenth century.
party foul n. slang (originally U.S.) an instance of socially inappropriate behaviour at a party or social gathering; (more generally) a faux pas, an unacceptable mistake.
ΚΠ
1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 61 Party foul, to do something inappropriate or rude at a party of social gathering: especially, to vomit or spill alcohol.
1991 Another List of Terms in alt.drugs (Usenet newsgroup) 17 June Party Foul: Among other things, spilling the bong juice (smells really bad).
1998 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 13 Sept. 6 You wouldn't see Clinton leaving his dope in a crashed, roadside vehicle. That's a major party foul.
2002 Village Voice 28 May 12/2 Danny Chavis rushed over to hand me a gin-and-tonic, drawing the ire of model Oluchi when he spilled it on her arm. Party foul!
party girl n. a (young) woman who is a keen and frequent partygoer; (hence) one with a hedonistic lifestyle; spec. a prostitute.
ΚΠ
1931 ‘C. Graham’ & ‘G. Graham’ Whitey x. 184 ‘Sleepers around’, he had heard them called somewhere—party girls who sometimes have permanent residences and sometimes not.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential i. iv. 39 The telephone had come into its own. Whores are ‘call girls’, ‘party girls’ or ‘company girls’. Instead of your visiting them, they come to see you.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 July 5/2 The prostitutes and partygirls who hang around the beer parlors are having poor pickings, police say.
2003 Mirror (Nexis) 24 Oct. 12 Davinia is renowned for being a bit of a party girl but they had a very quiet time on honeymoon.
party government n. government by a political party or coalition of such parties.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > [noun]
ordinance?a1400
governance1402
policy?a1439
regimentc1475
frame1529
statea1538
government1553
estate1559
platform1587
polity1590
governail1598
regimen1663
constitution1735
regime1792
system1806
party government1834
1834 New-Eng. Mag. 7 273 The result is, that we have a party government.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar iii. 28 Party government turns on the majorities at the polling places.
1904 Collier's 7 May 4/1 The value of party government is not an open question. It is the only method of government by the people's will.
1994 Vincentian 22 July 6/2 Since the inception of Party Government in 1957, two other Parties have had uninterrupted runs of ten years.
party hack n. a person who does routine or undemanding work for a political party; a politician of limited talents.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine > party worker or hack
party hack1848
worker1873
party worker1874
tadpole1880
precinct worker1881
1848 W. G. Simms Charleston & her Satirists 48 No party hack, the politician's tool, Still seeking only to maintain his rule.
1899 M. Beerbohm More 89 I should be glad to see..his office held by an artist, not by a party-hack.
1924 Times 1 Dec. 9/3 He was unwilling to prostitute the position of a representative of the people to that of a party hack.
2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Jan. 6/2 Entrenched party hacks lined their cronies' pockets.
party hat n. a brightly-coloured (frequently comical) hat made of paper, plastic, etc., worn by guests at a party.
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1961 F. T. Day Let's have Party vi. 132 (caption) Five different and simple methods of the Party Hat make-up.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Weekend section) 1 You can always just bring some cupcakes and party hats to your child's classroom and call it a party.
2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 50/4 (advt.) Amazing party hats, noisemakers, novelties plus gift packaging.
party hound n. North American. = party animal n.
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1923 Bookman Mar. 626/1 Farrar, though outwardly the most socially amenable of party-hounds, has actually a most meager facility for identifying himself with the moods and manners of a group.
1928 Washington Post 23 Dec. a3/7 (headline) Clara [Bow] becomes a party hound in new talkie.
1945 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) 24 July 7/5 Sobered, raucous party hounds have been known to apologize with the trite fragment of a dulled conscience, ‘We were having a little party, I hope we didn't disturb you.’
1973 Sat. Rev. Society (U.S.) May 65/3 A real fun guy,..a super-duper party hound.
2005 Nashua (New Hampsh.) Tel. 15 Dec. (Encore section) 7/2 The all-night intoxication of his Studio 54 youth should have ended 20 years ago when his fellow party hounds hit rehab.
party leadership n. (a) the position or office of leader of a political party; (b) those who hold leading positions in a political party collectively.
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1846 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 466/1 The whigs recognise the principle of an hereditary succession even in party leadership.
1993 Beaver June 35/2 Brian Mulroney..had never run for any other elective office when he won the party leadership.
2000 Guardian 24 May i. 10/8 About 5% of the party are oppositionalist, but the party leadership treats anyone who disagrees as out of bounds.
party machine n. the controlling organization of a political party, esp. such a body characterized by impressive or ruthless efficiency (cf. machine n. Compounds 1).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine
party machine1837
machine1860
1837 D. Webster Wks. (1853) I. 366 A complying, political, party machine, instead of an independent institution.
1918 Observer 29 Sept. 6/2 No serious citizen..can doubt..what is imperatively demanded by the interests of the nation, no matter what may be the interests of some caucuses and party-machines.
2000 Guardian 3 Aug. i. 3/5 Corporate gifts to party machines which escape the strict limits on political contributions to individual candidates.
party manners n. good manners, best behaviour.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > good manners or polite behaviour
mannersa1425
mannerlinessa1500
behavioura1601
etiquette1757
company manners1798
party manners1873
1873 Harper's Mag. July 246/1 She rehearsed in her mind all the little she knew about parties and party manners.
1930 A. Harris tr. P. Cohen-Portheim Eng. Unknown Isle iv. 45 When we get into our party clothes we put on our party manners and party conversation with them.
2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Dec. 8 I'm sorry to say that not everyone was displaying their best party manners at the London Coliseum on Tuesday.
party-mindedness n. [ < party n. + minded adj.2 + -ness suffix, after Russian partijnost′ (see partyness n.)] dedication to one's party, esp. (in Leninist discourse) to the Communist Party.
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1951 G. Struve tr. A. Belik in Soviet Russ. Lit. 370 Establishing the principle of Party-mindedness as the fundamental law of Socialist realism.
2002 L.A. Weekly (Nexis) 3 May 23 Anyone engaged in political and cultural wars should be very wary of party-mindedness and party allegiance.
party monster n. a person who parties frequently and without restraint, typically to excess; cf. slightly earlier party animal n.
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1983 National Lampoon Aug. 16 To be truly effective supremo, one must also be a party monster.
2003 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 17 Feb. 43 I thought we were Generation X—no wars, no wives, no babies—just ecstasy-fuelled party monsters on the happy road to nowhere, forever.
party piano n. a boogie-woogie or barrelhouse style of piano-playing.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing keyboard instrument > [noun] > playing piano > specific style
boogie-woogie1928
stride pianoc1938
whorehouse piano1938
party piano1942
trumpet style1946
stride1956
1942 C. E. Smith Jazz Record Bk. 81 The ‘party piano’ style, a growth that owes more to oldtime blues playing than to any other one source, was already a flourishing development in the 1930's.
2000 Amer. Libr. (Nexis) 1 June 98 The party piano provided the energy, melody, and rhythm to raise the spirits of an oppressed people.
party piece n. a piece of music or other act performed by a person on a special occasion; an unusual trick, feat, etc., for which one is renowned; cf. party trick n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > other types
début1751
vehicle1785
benefit1802
showpiece1810
ticket-night1812
yatra1827
command1839
lollipopa1849
party piece1851
roadshow1874
one-night stand1878
stand1878
one-man show1879
small1886
command performance1897
ticket benefit1898
frivol1903
run-through1905
pre-production1906
riot1909
one-nighter1916
gala performance1932
improv1953
warm-up1958
workshopping1966
impro1979
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > attending or giving party > [noun] > performance of one's speciality at party
party piece1851
1851 Encycl. Americana VIII. 312/2 He..wrote a number of poetical effusions of the humorous and satirical kind, which were very effective as party pieces.
1949 Times 13 Dec. 5/4 Party piece... A ‘piece’ to be recited..at the family party on Christmas Day.
2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 45 Her soft, wet face beamed perpetually on her ‘ressies’—as if, in dying, they were essaying some much-loved party piece.
party plan n. a sales method by which goods are displayed or demonstrated at a party in a private house.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling method or technique > types of
branding1913
cross-selling1919
mass marketing1920
supermarketing1940
hard sell1945
market testing1947
sales drive1951
soft sell1953
rack-jobbing1954
switch selling1960
cold selling1961
telesales1962
telemarketing1963
loss-leading1964
test-marketing1964
pyramid selling1965
inertia selling1968
overselling1968
bundling1969
oversell1969
rack job1969
bounceback1970
party plan1973
sale-leaseback1973
up-marketing1975
sellathon1976
upselling1977
cold calling1978
cold call1980
network marketing1981
ambush marketing1987
green marketing1988
relationship marketing1988
freemium1994
e-tailing1995
1973 Times 25 Apr. 10/1 (advt.) Scott James of Westminster distribute a superb range of family clothing direct to the consumer, through party plan and catalogue selling techniques.
1998 Gender & Society 12 433 A sizable number..were party plan operations, such as Tupperware.
party platform n. a manifesto; the issues on which a political party fights an election.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party principles or line
party line1837
party platform1848
line1892
tabernacle1902
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. 111 It gives a Party Platform, tu, jest level with the mind Of..honest folks thet mean to go it blind.
1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 484/1 A party platform is a general statement of principles, policies, and issues, and a programme of promises which the party pledges to enact into legislation.
2000 Social Forces 79 498 The main ideological source of low turnout was..not a disjuncture between party platforms and citizens' preferences.
party politician n. a politician who is habitually loyal and obedient to his or her party.
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a1739 S. Wesley To Sir Herbert Powell in Poems Several Occasions (1743) 51 Your Party Politicians will aspire A little, and indeed but little, higher.
1831 J. S. Mill in Examiner 9 Jan. 20/2 They who prefer the ravings of a party politician to the musings of a recluse, may consult a late article in Blackwood's Magazine.
1993 Guardian 4 Dec. 24/1 John Major and Albert Reynolds are party politicians to their bootstraps.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 44 628/1 A reader—whether a member of the public, a journalist, or a party politician—would be in no doubt that the position of the party on the policy concern is pro.
party politics n. a system of politics based on competition between parties.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun]
party1726
party politics1755
party system1824
1755 A. Kennedy Speech 4 In party politicks, the affair [sc. bigotism] is soon over, and commonly ends only in a few sour looks.
1864 W. Allingham Laurence Bloomfield xii. 258 Forbear to mix With Church affairs, or party politics.
1937 H. Williams Poems Jonathan Swift II. 537 (note) His effective participation in party politics was then virtually over.
2001 Oxoniensia 65 137 Had the Town Council been as free from party politics as the Local Board we should by this time have had Municipal Buildings worthy of our city.
party poop n. = party pooper n.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances
cloudc1430
palla1450
melancholya1475
downdraughta1681
Job's comforter1738
damper1748
killjoy1776
wet blanket1810
down-drag1814
chill1821
dismals1829
shadow1855
down1856
a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857
wet blanket1857
depressor1868
dampener1887
sorry-go-round1898
wet smack1927
bringdown1935
droopy drawers1939
big chill1943
party pooper1947
misery1951
party poop1951
grinch1966
downer1969
1949 Terre Haute (Indiana) Star 30 Dec. 6/2 (advt.) ‘Party Poops.’ The newest cocktail creation by Grace Rush of Cincinnati—toasted soya nuts, herbs, cheese,..jar 59¢.]
1951 Kingsport (Tenn.) Times-News 22 July 18/1 Most of the boys are entering college (Amherst, Williams, Yale, Haverford) and all of them are teriffic, absolutely not party poops (a Williams word I've picked up).
1959 W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 131 Such people are no better than party poops.
1992 Village Voice (N.Y.) 9 June 53/1 Theorizing comedy is a surefire party-poop, but..Gail Singer's Wisecracks manages to have its laughs and parse them too.
party pooper n. a person who spoils the social enjoyment of others, typically by being gloomy; a killjoy.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances
cloudc1430
palla1450
melancholya1475
downdraughta1681
Job's comforter1738
damper1748
killjoy1776
wet blanket1810
down-drag1814
chill1821
dismals1829
shadow1855
down1856
a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857
wet blanket1857
depressor1868
dampener1887
sorry-go-round1898
wet smack1927
bringdown1935
droopy drawers1939
big chill1943
party pooper1947
misery1951
party poop1951
grinch1966
downer1969
1947 Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Cosmos 26 Mar. 2/4 It is awful embarrassing to have to be a party-pooper and blush to see such goings on in public.
1951 Newsweek 8 Oct. 28/1 Party pooper has taken the place of wallflower or wet blanket.
2000 S. King On Writing 230 There were a thousand people..but not a single one in my room to be a party-pooper and tell me I got this detail wrong.
party-pooping adj. and n. ; (a) adj. that spoils the plans or social enjoyment of others. (b) n. the practice or an instance of spoiling the social enjoyment of others.
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1958 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 15 Sept. 19/2 Arizona State's Frank Kush, usually not the pessimistic party-pooping sort, was anything but living it up after Saturday night's Sun Devil intra-squad shindig.
1960 Mt. Vernon (Illinois) Reg.-News 12 Jan. 10/1 The liquor industry would receive its worst jolt since Carry Nation picked up her hatchet and went party-pooping.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 July d1 In fact, the teams are so patently unjust this year that the party-pooping New York Times took a solemn poll of major league teams to set everyone straight.
1993 Spy (N.Y.) Mar. 50/1 Despite the post-Tailhook wave of party-pooping, the U.S. Navy has managed to hold on to tradition in at least one respect.
2001 Big Issue 27 Dec. 11/3 They painted him as a mad, bitter, party-pooping, gay, Nazi-appeasing, left-wing fanatic who, ultimately, was better out than in.
party popper n. a small hand-held firework which explodes with a loud bang and fires confetti or streamers into the air.
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1961 Delphos (Ohio) Courant 25 Aug. 4/3 Formally opening the carnival was chairman Bill Wiesenberg who blew a party popper scattering confetti over the some fifty children who had gathered..to enjoy the fun.
1976 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 13 Dec. 11/2 (advt.) Bill's House of Jokes, Party Poppers, Crazy Foam, [etc.].
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Jan. iv. 14/1 Minor-league fireworks like snakes, sparklers and party poppers.
party room n. (a) a room in which a party is held; a room for hire which can accommodate a large number of people; (b) Politics (esp. Australian) a room in which the members of a particular political party meet for private discussion, esp. to determine party policy.
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a1870 L. Manhiem in I. Raymond Southland Writers (1870) I. 498 Those little..misfortunes to the toilette of a lady that are so frequent upon the street or in the crowded ‘party-room’.
1929 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 23 877 Each party in the Reichstag..has a party room where these caucuses are held.
2000 Australian 28 June (Brisbane ed.) 3/2 Mr Ruddock told the partyroom that Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia would each take about 425 refugees.
party state n. a state in which power is held exclusively by one political party.
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1937 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 31 227 The tendency to transform the state into the party-state.
1970 H. Bienen in S. P. Huntington & C. H. Moore Authoritarian Politics in Mod. Society 119 His [sc. Zolberg's] party-state emerges as a system where bureaucratic and patrimonial features coexist.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 May 22/1 The Slorc..is an army-state, as communist countries were party-states.
party system n. = party politics n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun]
party1726
party politics1755
party system1824
1824 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 1 530 Here..the evils of the party system are most clearly shown.
1959 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties (ed. 2) ii. 203 The forms and modes of their [sc. the parties'] coexistence define the ‘party system’ of the particular country being considered.
2000 Nation (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 8/1 The laws of the state..keep the party system on life support by preferring two parties above all others.
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the mind > possession > sharing > [noun] > a sharer
partnerc1300
parcenera1325
partaker?a1425
parcenela1450
partman1468
party-taker?c1475
partsman1483
snapperc1555
partakener1565
sharer1580
co-sharer1596
sharesman1635
comportioner1706
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 92v A Partitaker, particeps.
party ticket n. (a) (originally and chiefly U.S.) a list of candidates put forward by a party in an election; (also) a set of principles or policies supported by a party in an election; = ticket n.1 8; (b) British an entrance or travel ticket for a group of people, sold at a lower price than an equivalent number of individual tickets (now rare).
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > list of candidates
lites1533
ticket1711
party ticket1800
slate1842
1800 Raleigh Reg. & N.-Carolina Weekly Advertiser 28 Oct. The very Federal city of Philadelphia, has divided the party tickets. The Democrats have carried their candidate for Congress, one State Representative, and one city Councillor. The rest of their officers are Federal.
1826 Morning Post 17 May 1/2 (advt.) Admission, 2s. 6d.; Party Tickets for four, 8s.
1839 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 522 If the Whigs object to the actual results in those counties where two full party tickets were run..we are willing to take the majorities of 1838 in those counties.
1900 G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Mar. (1972) II. 149 The Fabian..will cling to personal highmindedness and capacity rather than to a party ticket in voting.
1960 Economist 22 Oct. 395/3 A proposal by some [airline] operators..to give ‘special’ rates to people travelling in a group—something like the railways' party ticket.
1999 Washington Times (Electronic ed.) 11 Aug. In New York, major party candidates generally also run on one or more minor party tickets.
party time n. a time for partying; a time for enjoying oneself.
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1948 N.Y. Times 28 Dec. ii. 7 (headline) Party time tonight for American Guild of Musical Artists.
1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic vii. 175 ‘Dance to the Music’'s..party-time atmosphere, and jubilant, whomping beat utterly transformed soul music.
2001 Sugar Feb. 113/2 November's an even better time for friendships and from then on it's party time. Yay!
party trick n. a trick such as might be performed at a party for entertainment; an unusual act regarded as one's speciality; cf. party piece n.
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1840 N. Amer. Rev. July 82 This was either a bigoted prejudice or a party trick.
1929 Radio Times 8 Nov. 390/1 Tony Monke..has been persuaded to execute his best party trick of standing on his head.
2002 New Scientist 23 Feb. 25/3 In a famous scientific party trick, a magnet hovers above a superconductor cooled by liquid nitrogen.
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1705 D. Defoe Hymn to Victory in Writings II. 132 The embattl'd People now in sides appear, And all's embroil'd in Party War.
1833 J. W. Ord Wandering Bard i. xix. 30 Religion hath sunk down to party wars.
party whip n. †(a) the pressure exerted by a political party upon its members (obsolete); (b) a person appointed by a party to exercise this pressure and maintain party discipline.
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1851 Rep. Ohio Convent. Deb. 1850–51 276/2 [He] is so assiduous in cracking his party whip,..that he may have been guilty of a breach of the party creed.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 9 Oct. 12/1 A whole page is headed in large capitals, ‘Whippers-in.’ Then follow the names of the various party ‘Whips,’ as we would call them.
1999 Earth Matters Summer 13/1 MPs spend half their time..as lobby fodder for party whips.
party witness n. a party in a legal action who also acts as a witness.
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1669 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa VI. vi. viii. 297 I will not scruple to put that to a tryal, where you are Party-Witness, and Judg.
1829 J. Bentham Justice & Codif. Petit., Abr. Petit. Justice 33 Say accordingly party-witnesses, or testifying parties.
1994 Brit. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 24 40/1 (table) Opposite party witness.
2002 N.Y. Law Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 28 The objectants have moved for an order compelling a party-witness to appear for an examination pursuant to a subpoena.
Derivatives
ˈpartyship n. rare the state or condition of being a party; partisanship.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > attachment to party
partyship1650
party spirit1705
partyism1831
colour1852
1650 Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers 5 The Kingdom is divided by partieship with them, on the one side or the other.
2001 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 14 July s7 There is..a huge problem with the partyship of some of the led; it is now clear there were always two factions within the party.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
partyadj.
/ˈpɑːti/, U.S. /ˈpɑrdi/ I. Divided or distinguished according to colour.
1. † b. figurative. Combining two or more different qualities; of composite or changeable character. Obsolete.
a. Particoloured, variegated. Now archaic (rare after early 18th cent.).
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective]
fawa700
medleyc1350
freckledc1380
motleyc1380
pied1382
specked1382
vary1382
partyc1385
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peckleda1400
polymitec1425
sere-colouredc1425
vairc1425
discoloured?1440
motleyed1447
varying1488
sheld1507
fleckered1508
piet1508
mellay1515
particoloured1530
pickled1552
varied1578
mingled1580
partly coloured1582
chequered1592
medley-coloured1593
mingle-coloured1593
piebald1594
feathered1610
changeable1612
particolour1612
enamelled1613
variousa1618
pie-coloured1619
jaspered1620
gangean1623
versicolour1628
patchwork1634
damasked1648
variously-coloureda1660
variegateda1661
agated1665
varicoloured1665
damaska1674
various-coloureda1711
pieted1721
versicoloured1721
diversicoloured1756
mosaic1776
harlequin1779
spanged1788
calico1807
piety1811
varied-coloured1811
discolorate1826
heterochromous1842
jaspé1851
discolor1859
discolorous1860
jasperoid1876
damascened1879
heterochromatic1895
variotinted1903
batik1914
varihued1921
rumbled1930
damasky1931
pepper-and-salt1940
partihued1959
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1053 She gadreth floures, party [v.rr. a party, patie, part] white and rede.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 983 (MED) Juno let bende hire parti bowe.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 385 Party Clothe, or clothe made of dyuers colowrys.
1494 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 225 v½ quarteris of crammesyn satyne to be half a party dowblat.
?1521 Bk. Ghoostly Fader sig. Aiiii Hast thou be proude of ony guyse Of ony thynge that thou dydest vse Of party hosen or of pyked shone.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. iv. 201 The party popill grane Heildit his heid wyth skug Herculeane.
c1561 Court of Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & other Pieces (1897) xxiv. 447 With fressh garlandës, partie blewe and whyte.
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 38 Partie letters and other fansies.
1632 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) iii. 92 The blowes that solid snowe with crimson stripe; Like Apples party-red, or Grapes scarce ripe.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. Q Some [Hyacinths] are more double, as well White as Blew, and therefore are to be esteemed because of their Party-flowering.
1916 C. M. Doughty Titans ii. 34 The nodding windflower, party white and red.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [adjective]
compoundc1400
jointc1400
pieced1419
mixed?a1425
complexionatec1430
partyc1500
concrete1536
compost?1541
united1567
composed1570
compounded1570
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compositive1601
integrate1601
complicate1638
complexa1652
complicated1667
composite1678
co-unala1711
conglomerate1835
polylithic1961
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 316 Fortune, the goddesse, with her party face.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 6 I hef præparit..a litle, partie, handsum, instrument that may suffice ws,..bayth for a waippin and werk~lume, for a speir or a spade.
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. 2570 With party thorchtis ioyfull and wraith Thay had plente forout sparing.
2. † b. figurative. party per pale: having two different, esp. opposite or contrasted, qualities; of mixed or composite character. Cf. sense 1b. Obsolete.
a. Heraldry. Of a shield or coat of arms: divided into parts of different tinctures, usually separated by a line in the direction of an ordinary (indicated by per). party per pale: divided by a vertical line through the middle (see also sense 2b). party per fess: divided by a horizontal line through the middle. Cf. pale n.1 6b, fesse n.1, and parted adj.1 2.In blazoning now usually omitted, per pale, etc., being used instead of party per pale, etc.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > lines or edges > [adjective] > divided in two
parted1395
partyc1460
counterly1486
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > lines or edges > [adjective] > divided in two > by vertical line
part per palec1460
bebally1486
party per pale1562
c1460 Bk. Arms in Ancestor (1902) Oct. 202 (MED) Gold and wert party, [sc. a lion gules].
1486 Blasyng of Armys sig. fii, in Bk. St. Albans (MED) He berith party after the longe way of ij colouris, golde and goules.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 11 (MED) A knygh with Party armys shall formyst breke the clos of Irland.
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 43 b Party per Fesse, Argent, and Vert.
1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 191 Iohn Beauford..bare party per pale Argent and Azure a bend of England with a labell of France.
a1637 B. Jonson Kings Entertainm. at Welbeck sig. Oo1 in Wks. (1640) III A costly Cassock of black Buckram girt unto him, whereon was painted Party-per pale: On the one side..declined. On the other side..Undeclined.
1725 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (rev. ed.) Partie, or Party, signifies in French divided, but their Heralds use it only to denote what we call Party, or Parted per pale.
1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 19 A shield, however, is never party..of any of the diminutives of the ordinaries.
1896 J. Woodward Heraldry I. 478 Mi-parti—said of dimidiated arms, and of an ordinary parti per pale.
1950 C. W. Scott-Giles Boutell's Heraldry (rev. ed.) iv. 31 A shield divided by a horizontal central line is party per fess.
2002 Hist. Today (Nexis) 1 May 11 Thomas Chaucer chose his maternal Roet arms over his paternal Chaucer arms, these being parti per pale, a bend over all.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > of mixed composition or character
linsey-woolsey1565
mongrela1586
piebald1590
sundry1593
party per pale1607
mi-parti1610
hybridan1623
participle1694
ambigenal hyperbola1710
hybrida1716
mulish1729
hybridal1801
mulea1833
mixtiform1837
mongrelized1857
1607 J. Marston What you Will ii. i. sig. B4 You Chamblet youth, Symplicius Faber that Hermaphrodite, Party par pale, that bastard Moungerell soule.
1647 J. Cleveland Char. London-diurnall 31 Water & earth make but one Globe, a Roundhead Is Clergy-Lay Party-per-pale compounded.
1672 T. Shadwell Miser i. i. 2 This young Lady, is Mrs Cheatly, party per pale Match-maker, and Baud.
1717 T. Hearne in Reliquiae Hearnianae (1857) I. 376 It was, as I hear, a party per pale sermon, viz. both for the whiggs and for the tories.
1781 H. Walpole Let. 18 Dec. in Corr. (1965) XXXIII. 315 A grandee hopping with one foot on the haut du pavé, and t'other in the kennel, partie per pale, ermine and mud!
1818 S. T. Coleridge Misc. Crit. i. Lect. xi A fancy shar'd party per pale between Death's heads and skeletons and Aretine!
3.
a. Inclined to be separate, rebellious; separate in character; different. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective]
othereOE
otherkinseOE
unilicheOE
elseOE
otherways?c1225
diversc1250
diverse1297
unlikea1300
likelessa1325
sundrya1325
contrariousc1340
nothera1375
strangec1380
anothera1382
otherwisea1393
diversed1393
differenta1400
differing?c1400
deparayll1413
disparable1413
disparail1413
dissemblable1413
party?a1439
unlikeningc1450
indifferent1513
distinct1523
repugnant1528
far1531
heterogene?1541
discrepant1556
mislike1570
contrary1576
distincted1577
another-gainesa1586
dispar1587
another gate1594
dislike1596
unresembling1598
heterogeneana1601
anothergates1604
heterogeneal1605
unmatched1606
disparate1608
disparent?1611
differential1618
dissimilar1621
disparated1624
dissimilary1624
heterogeneous1624
unparallel1624
otherguess1632
anotherguise1635
incongenerous1646
anotherguess1650
otherguise1653
distant1654
unresemblant1655
distantial1656
allogeneous1666
distinguished1736
otherguised1768
unsimilar1768
insimilar1801
anotherkins1855
diff1861
distinctive1867
othergate1903
unalike1934
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) v. 260 (MED) The peeple was parti, & roos ageyn the kyng.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 668 (MED) Þi fourme Is lickenand on na lym ne like to my selfe..Þi personale proporcion sa party is to myne.
b. Chiefly Scottish gold party n. (also party gold) beaten gold, gold leaf. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > gilding > gold leaf or plate
gold-foil1398
gold party1461
fulyie1488
rattle-gold1508
gold plate1549
gold leaf1573
leaf gold1576
feuille1662
gilt leaf1674
ormolu1765
gold plating1843
gold leafing1858
1461 Mercers' Pageant Documents in A. F. Johnston & M. Rogerson Rec. Early Eng. Drama: York (1979) I. 91 Item for j C party geld & j C sylluere iij s ij d.
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 293 For ije of gold party to the Duke of Ȝorkis banar.
1507 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 404 iiij quaris parti gold.
1527 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1872) (modernized text) IV. ii. 1391 Party gold, 2s. per 100, used by painters on the great roof.
Compounds
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > other
russet coatc1425
syon1511
party coat1559
patch-coat?1608
undercoat1648
turncoat1726
wambais1761
straw coat1783
coatlet1795
Wellington coat1809
redingote1823
shad-belly1842
cutaway1849
reliever1850
blouse1861
shooter1870
square-cut1893
stroller1901
Redfern1909
sherwani1911
teddy bear1925
swagger coat1933
swing-coat1935
Crombie1951
tent coat1961
1559 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 195 The rulers and the Chansere and of the Kyngbynche [ij and ij to]gether, and after cam a hondered in parte cottes.
1595 W. Hunnis Life & Death Joseph 5 in Recreat. (new ed.) They stript him forth his party cote.
1638 Sir J. Beaumont in Jonsonus Virbius sig. C2v When heretofore, the vices onely note, And signe from vertue as his party-coate.
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partyv.
/ˈpɑːti/, U.S. /ˈpɑrdi/ a. intransitive. To side with; = part v. 15. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (intransitive)] > take someone's part
party1586
seconda1609
to take sides1719
(to be) on a person's, the other side of the fence1852
1586 in M. Warrender Illustr. Sc. Hist. (1889) 23 Who shall pertie with hir [sc. Queen Mary] to preuve the dimission or assignation to be ineffectual, hir son being opposit pertie.
1734 R. Keith Hist. Affairs Church & State Scotl. i. xi. 121 The Earl of Huntly..had, it seems, an unfix'd Resolution what Side to party with.
b. transitive. To take the part of, side with. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > side with [verb (transitive)]
to take (a) part witha1470
to hold sides1490
to take the part ofc1500
partake1546
follow1548
side1585
party1587
part1669
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (transitive)] > take someone's side or side with
favoura1375
to stand with ——1384
takec1400
to take (a) part witha1470
to hold sides1490
to take the part ofc1500
to stick with ——1523
partake1546
follow1548
to join issue1551
to make with ——1559
favourize1585
side1585
party1587
to take in1597
part1669
to fall in1709
to take for ——1770
to take up for1824
range1874
1587 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1942) I. 8 He..hes..solistit all uthers that will do for him to partey him in this caus.
a1630 D. Hume Hist. Houses Douglas & Angus (1644) 16 This house of Abernethie..did assist and party them in all their enterprises.
1691 Cramond Kirk Session III. 1 June & promised they would pairty him in maintaining his right.
1739 A. Nicol Nature without Art 87 And there appoint him, for's Abuse, Sisyphus's endless Toil to use; And all that party him, for ever, A better Fate befal them never.
a1800 in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1894) V. ix. No. 282 Sae many, a party o common thiefs, But nane to party me!
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > join or form a party or take sides [verb (intransitive)]
to stand in1555
to fall ina1568
partialize1592
side1609
party1656
to take (also hold) sides1700
(to be) on a person's, the other side of the fence1852
1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 72 To incense the people to faction or party it against him.
1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 81 The Priests of all sorts sect it, so do all religious persons faction and party it.
3. colloquial (originally North American).
a. intransitive. To give a party; to attend a party; to have a good time. In extended use: to take drugs or drink alcohol (usually with others in a social context).
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > attending or giving party > attend or give party [verb (intransitive)]
party1922
boogie1929
fete1975
1922 E. E. Cummings Let. 5 Dec. (1969) 91 Haven't seen Vanity All is Fair in? but have extensively partyed with Er former Heditor.
1948 Penguin New Writing 35 106 Between times, when they were not drinking at the cafés, partying, writing, or making love, they talked a lot.
1967 W. Murray Sweet Ride vii. 109 I'm not a joiner, you know? I mean, all they do is party, party, party all the time.
2002 Trav. Afr. Winter 7/1 One New Year, travelling in uncomfortable local transport through forests with skyscraper trees, we stopped to party at every village.
b. transitive. To entertain at a party; to accompany to a party.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > attending or giving party > give party to [verb (transitive)]
hurricane1682
frolic1807
party1934
1934 M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang xxi. 376 Seven couples were partied by Mrs. Blank.
1963 D. B. Hughes Expendable Man ii. 30 You can't imagine the entertainment she's had..every club on the campus has partied her.
1988 H. Mantel Eight Months on Ghazzah St. 188 They were all partied to death..and now their store of small talk was running low.
c. intransitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to party hearty (also hardy): = to party down at sense 3d. Frequently in imperative. Cf. party-hearty adj. [The form in hardy seems likely to derive from the expression to party hard < hard adv., with suffixation (compare -y suffix6) for reduplicative effect, probably influenced by hardy adj. and n.1 The interchangeability of hardy with hearty is likely to have arisen because their U.S. pronunciation is frequently identical.]
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1955 Washington Post 24 Dec. 21/1 (headline) Young set still party hearty.
1975 G. Christopher Once you get Started in Don't stop Music (1998) 30 Ev'ry-body party hearty to get back in the groove.
1977 Washington Post 7 July 3/5 ‘Party hardy! Yeehaw!’ yelled Brenda Stephens, 14.
1986 D. A. Dye Platoon (1987) v. 90 You ready to party hearty?
1999 Select Feb. 34/1 Voyeurs of gibbonry would certainly be disappointed. Not that the band don't ‘party hearty’.
2001 Vancouver Province (Nexis) 21 Oct. b3 The trio attended the launch celebration for a new TV series and partied hardy.
d. intransitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to party down: to go to parties, celebrate, drink, etc., esp. unrestrainedly. Frequently in imperative. Cf. party-down adj.
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1976 New Yorker 27 Sept. 27/3 Let's party down.
1987 R. McCammon Swan Song ii. vi. 64 Party down! he thought, and he giggled with a noise like grinding glass.
2000 R. Barger et al. Hell's Angel xv. 254 After partying down with the Zurich chapter we hit the winding European highways on Harley full dressers.
e. intransitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to party on: = to party down at sense 3d. Frequently in imperative.
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1986 C. Matheson & E. Solomon Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (film script, 5th draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 3 Party on, dude.
1991 M. Myers et al. Wayne's World (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 6 Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until then, good night and party on.
1999 Independent 1 June ii. 4/2 Those somehow picking up the shattered pieces of their lives and partying on.
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 June a34/2 One set [of politicians] agrees that the nation is at a crossroads... The other says: Party on.
f. intransitive. U.S. slang (originally and chiefly in gay usage) to party and play: to engage in sexual activity sustained, enhanced, or facilitated by the use of disinhibiting and stimulant drugs. Often in the context of group sex between men at parties arranged for this purpose; cf. chemsex n.
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1997 Bay Area Reporter 31 July (Personal advts. section) 45/5 Cigar dad wants to get fucked!.. A pig looking for other pigs, let's party and play.
2011 D. Fritz Alien Princess Diaries (e-book, accessed 7 Dec. 2018) xii. 85 He invited me over to ‘party and play’ (PnP, in the vernacular!), and he gave me the code to dial on the callbox when I arrived at his place.
4. intransitive. U.S. slang (frequently euphemistic). To engage in sexual activity, esp. as or with a prostitute.
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1932 Brevities (N.Y.) 12 Dec. 9/3 She said that if I didn't mind partying with him, he'd probably be nice to me, but that if I didn't want to play, I should say so.
1946 W. L. Gresham Nightmare Alley 161 I only party to fill in. I sing with a band sometimes.
1973 D. Goines Street Players 159 He wants to party with both of us, girl.
1994 ‘G. Indiana’ Rent Boy 25 The time Chip partied with him, Chip's toenails punctured the guy's rectum.
2000 Los Angeles Times 1 Nov. f2 Stock tips become a means of transacting sex. ‘You guys wanna party, we want the IPO price,’ demands one of two hookers.
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partyadv.
/ˈpɑːti/, U.S. /ˈpɑrdi/ Now rare (only in Heraldry).
= partly adv. (cf. part adv. 2).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [adverb]
halfling?c1200
a-party1340
uncompletelyc1380
imperfectlyc1400
parcel1415
party1440
unfullyc1449
parcel-likea1475
partiallya1475
halflyc1480
a part1481
parta1500
parcelly gilt1509
diminutely1521
partly1523
partlings1564
portionally1617
incompletely1651
informedly1670
fragmentally1814
fragmentarily1856
part-way1954
1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 1624 Ther was no good watyr..But a litil pitte..And party was it fillid witȝ a wosy dam.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iv. 859 (MED) Party with witte, party wyth nygramauncy, She peruerteth oure lond in wonder wise.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 4333 (MED) Þogh he partie him misdo, He seiþ no word þanne him vnto.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxvii. 251 Sometimes all white, and sometimes partie white.
1584 T. Twyne tr. M. Vegius in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil XIII. Bks. Æneidos xiii. sig. X The garments partie wrought with silke and gold.
1598 R. Tofte tr. M. M. Boiardo Orlando Inamorato (Poem section) l. 345 His Shield was partie gold, and partie blacke.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 197/1 Their [sc. Deacon's] Office..is party Humane, party Divine.
1926 Mariner's Mirror 12 310 Three pine trees fructed—impaled party per chevron.
Compounds
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [adjective] > gilded
gildedOE
giltc1330
ygilt1340
gilteda1400
gold-hewna1400
gold-beatenc1400
gold-beata1413
overgilta1425
parcel-gilt1453
party-gilt1469
begilded1594
inaurated1623
parcela1625
begilta1637
water-gilt1707
inaurate1855
1469 Inventory in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. (1901) 24 85 (note) (MED) A chalys all gulte..a whyte Chalys party gulte.
1473 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 226 A couple of salt salers party gilt.
1644 W. Laud Last Will & Test. 13 Jan. in Hist. Troubles (1695) 455 All my Chappel-Plate, gilt, or party-gilt.
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adj.c1385
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