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partn.1

Brit. /pɑːt/, U.S. /pɑrt/
Forms: Old English– part, Middle English paart, Middle English paarte, Middle English parat (transmission error), Middle English pard, Middle English parde, Middle English partd, Middle English partte, Middle English–1500s pert, Middle English–1500s perte, Middle English–1600s parte, 1500s partt; Scottish pre-1700 paert, pre-1700 pairte, pre-1700 pairtt, pre-1700 pariit, pre-1700 parte, pre-1700 parthe, pre-1700 paryit, pre-1700 pearte, pre-1700 perte, pre-1700 1700s peart, pre-1700 1700s– pairt, pre-1700 1700s– part, pre-1700 1700s– pert, 1800s pourt (probably transmission error).
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin part-, pars; French part.
Etymology: Originally < classical Latin part-, pars (see below); subsequently reinforced by Anglo-Norman part, parte, par, per, perte, pars and Old French, Middle French part (French part ) side, direction, camp, party, faction, share, portion, division, piece, region, area, part of speech, also denoting a fraction specified by a preceding ordinal number (12th cent. or earlier in all of these senses) < classical Latin part- , pars one of the portions into which a thing may be divided, (with a numeral) each of a number of equal portions into which a thing may be divided, element, component, ingredient in a situation, part of speech (also more fully pars orātionis ), part of the body, (plural) the genitals, aspect, respect, portion, share, share in an activity, function, role, part in a play, direction in space, one of two or more contrasted sides or aspects of a situation, standpoint, side in a battle or dispute, party, faction, portion of territory, region, in post-classical Latin also unit of time (from 8th cent. in British sources: see note), sequence of notes in music to be sung by one of two or more performers (1515 in a British source in phrase cantus in parte ), ultimately < the same base as parere (see parent n. and adj.2) and parāre pare v.1 Compare Old Occitan, Occitan part (c1070), Catalan part (c1200), Spanish parte (950), Italian parte (10th cent.; 13th cent. in sense ‘duty, role’, subsequently also ‘theatrical role’ (a1571); a1590 in music in sense 13). Compare pars n., and party n., which shows considerable semantic overlap in early use; the plurals of the two words are often indistinguishable in the Middle English and early modern periods.Parallels to many of the prepositional phrases are recorded in classical Latin: ex parte , parte , ā parte , in parte , in partem , prō parte partly, in part, magnā ex parte , magnā parte , magnam partem to a large extent (in post-classical Latin also pro majori parte for the most part, 1291, 1446 in British sources), prō suā parte for one's own part. With to take part with compare post-classical Latin partem capere cum (c1435 in a British source). Compare also Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French de ma part , (etc.), for my part, (etc.), de part , de la part on the side or part (of someone), concerning (someone), d'une part,..d'autre part , de l'une part,..de l'autre part , etc., on the one hand,..on the other. In Phrases 3a perhaps partly after classical Latin participāre participate v.; compare also partaking n., partaker n. With Part of Fortune compare Middle French part de fortune (in astronomy) virtual point having a particular significance (end of the 15th cent.). With sense 9 compare:a735 Bede De Temporum Ratione iii Recipit autem hora IV punctos, X minuta, XV partes, XL momenta. The Latin word occasionally appears in an English context or as a borrowing in this sense during the Old English period (compare Old English minutum (see minute n.1), momentum n. 1):OE On Length of Year (Titus) in H. Henel Stud. zum Altenglischen Computus (1934) 65 On anre æfenneahtlicre tide beoð feower punctas, ten minuta, fiftene partes, feowortig momenta, be sumra manna tale.OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. iii. 104 Rabanus cwyð þæt se dæg hæfð partes (þæt synt dælas)... On þam dæge beoð þreo hund dælas and syxtig.
I. Senses relating to a portion or division of a whole.
1. Grammar.
†a. = part of speech n. at sense 1c. Cf. pars n. Obsolete.
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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
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 107 Þry eacan synd met, pte, ce, þe man eacnað on ledenspræce to sumum casum þises partes.
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 242 Þes part mæg beon gehaten dælnimend.
a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Rawl.:Napier) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1899) 14 461 (MED) Full perfytely he couth his partes, And sadly of all þe seuen artes.
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 36 Donettis partis accidents.
a1519 J. Colet Æditio (1527) sig. Diiij There cometh of a verbe deriuyed a parte called a Supyne.
1615 J. Brinsley (title) The posing of the parts.
a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. ii. ix, in Wks. (1640) III In our English speech, we number the same parts with the Latines... Only, we adde a ninth, which is the Article.
†b. part of reason n. Obsolete = part of speech n. at sense 1c. Cf. party of reason n. at party n. 1c.
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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) 17 How many partes ben þere of reson? viij... Nown, pronown, verbe, aduerbe, participyl, coniunccyon, preposicyon, and interieccyon.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. v. 16 Vnneth..knowe they their partes of reson whiche is the first book of grammaire.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 24 Partes of reason..they have thryse iii, for, besydes the viii parts of speche commen betwene them and the latines..they have also a nynth part of reason whiche I call article.
c. part of speech n. each of the categories to which words are traditionally assigned according to their grammatical and semantic functions. Cf. part of reason n. at sense 1b.In English there are traditionally considered to be eight parts of speech, i.e. noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection; sometimes nine, the article being distinguished from the adjective, or, formerly, the participle often being considered a distinct part of speech. Modern grammars often distinguish lexical and grammatical classes, the lexical including in particular nouns, adjectives, full verbs, and adverbs; the grammatical variously subdivided, often distinguishing classes such as auxiliary verbs, coordinators and subordinators, determiners, numerals, etc. See also word class n. at word n. and int. Compounds 2.
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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
1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) v. 27 For as moche as there be Viii. partes of speche, I wolde knowe ryght fayne What a nowne substantyue, is in his degre.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 24 Besydes the viii parts of speche commen betwene them and the latines..they have also a nynth part of reason whiche I call article.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. vi. 56 Q. How many parts of speech haue you? Or how many parts are there in Speech? A. Eight.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. i. §8. 303 That part of speech, which by our Common Grammarians is stiled a Verb,..ought to have no distinct place amongst Integrals in a Philosophical Grammar.
1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 62 I have not made the Article (as some have done) a distinct Part of Speech.
1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 241 Why in parsing is he led to refer every word to its part of speech?
1802 R. L. Edgeworth Ess. Irish Bulls xiv. 222 Of the eleven grammatical figures, Ireland delights chiefly in the antimeria, or changing one part of speech for another.
1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 277 We..must have the parts of speech before we can predicate anything.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. i. 17 Even the fundamental features of Indo-European grammar, such as, especially, the part-of-speech system, are by no means universal in human speech.
1964 Language 40 167 One-syllable words, graphemically defined, have the same part-of-speech assignments when checked against standard dictionaries.
1991 Jrnl. Semantics 8 335 But this association, for each part of speech, only holds true for a central domain, outside of which word-class membership is only weakly motivated or even arbitrary.
2.
a. With a numeral: each of a number of equal portions into which a thing may be divided; an exact divisor, a submultiple; spec. (a) (with a preceding ordinal numeral) denoting the number of equal portions that would make up a whole, as a third part, two third parts, etc. (now usually omitted, the ordinal thus becoming a noun, as a third, two-thirds, etc.); (b) (with a preceding cardinal numeral) denoting the proportionate division of a whole, (also) denoting a number of divisions that are one short of the whole (as two parts = two-thirds, three parts = three-quarters, etc.; formerly also in singular with a numeral higher than one, as two part, etc.). Now literary.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > divisor or dividend > without remainder
partc1300
quotea1464
divisor1557
aliquot part1570
greatest common measure1570
measure1570
multiplex1570
aliquot1610
multiple1685
submultiple1702
least common multiple1714
bipartient1819
least squares1847
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 665 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 318 Ȝeot nis þare, to wonien Inne, onneþe þe seuenþe part.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) Apoc. xi. 13 The tenthe paart [L. decima pars] of the citee fel.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 973 (MED) Þe half parte gladli, or þe thrid, we wil þe giue if þou it bid.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 47 Mair than twa part of his rout War herbreit in the toune tharout.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 8 (MED) Of ich order, in thare degre, the x parte fell downe with me.
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 107v I mon deburs Moir nor the twa pairt of my fe.
1639 Ld. Wariston Let. 24 May in Diary (1896) 36 To send hither..at the least the two part of the horses and horsemen.
1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements v. 91 A Part, is a magnitude of a magnitude, a lesse of a greater, when the lesse measureth the greater.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 12 The Queen allots him three Parts in eight for his singular Hazards.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Amphora The Attic Amphora was one third part bigger than the Italic.
1815 M. Edgeworth Patronage (rev. ed.) IV. xli. 299 Possession..being nine parts of the law.
1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 358 Any cone is the third part of a cylinder..of equal base and altitude.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 319 He was himself only three parts Roman.
1903 S. Butler Way of All Flesh lii. 243 If you begin with the Bible,..you are three parts gone on the road to infidelity.
1904 N.E.D. at Peck sb.1 The Scottish peck was the fourth part of the firlot.
1962 P. Goodman Lordly Hudson 207 She moves in an idle way putting a foot here and there, her counsel is nine parts dismay.
1987 G. Keillor State Fair in Leaving Home (1989) 111 Twenty-five cents, two bits, the fourth part of a dollar.
†b. With preceding numeral, expressing multiplication or comparison: times (time n. 19). Cf. deal n.1 1e. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [noun] > multiple
doublea1325
partc1395
c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 553 Ne koude man by twenty thousand part Countrefete the sophymes of his art.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 210 (MED) Þei schewed me a boke þat my boke was examynde by, þat comprehended full moche more be an hundred part.
a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 7 Ȝe schule haue ȝoure licour by an hundrid part bettir gilt.
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man Pref. f. xvv A thousande partes better maye it be translated in to the english then in to the Latyne.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. Xv Not he..Might be compar'd to this by many parts.
?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads Pref. sig. A3v They..are ten parts more paraphrastical then I.
?1668 T. Jordan Wealth Out-witted v. i. 50 They are handsomer men now their beards are off, by ten parts.
c. One of a number of equal portions of indeterminate size that go to make up a (real or notional) mixture.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > some, any, or indefinite amount > as related to amount of which it is part > one of a number of equal amounts
anaa1400
parta1400
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > one of a number of equal parts
parta1400
measure1837
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 229 (MED) Take oile of roses iiij partis, of wex o part, [etc.].
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 725 (MED) Twey partis bran with flour this Grekis take Wit water hoot commixt.
a1500 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Wellcome) f. 21v (MED) Take of encence on parte and Aloe halfe a parte, [etc.].
?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses ix. 133 It [sc. wine] was so strong, that neuer any filld A cup..but twas before allaid With twentie parts in water.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 298 Two parts of this water poured into one part boiling milk.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory iii. 509 Take of pure sulphate of copper, two parts; carbonate of ammonia, three parts.
1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 183 One part of carbon consumes in burning to carbonic acid 2⅔ parts of oxygen.
1921 L. Strachey Queen Victoria ii. 39 He was one part blackguard, people said, and three parts buffoon.
1979 Gourmet Dec. 159/2 (advt.) Stir 4 to 5 parts vodka, gin or light rum with one part Rose's Lime Juice.
2002 New Yorker 13 May 58/3 Kramer came off as a weird mixture of Jerry Rubin and Mahatma Gandhi: three parts obnoxiousness and one part righteous indignation.
d. parts per —— (expressing a proportion).Cf. ppb n. at P n. Initialisms, ppm n. at Initialisms.
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1843 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 133 332 Vegetation..is always acting to restore the atmospheric air to its original composition of twenty-one parts per cent. of oxygen.
1865 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 155 426 The sulphuric acid, lime, magnesia, and potash are given..in parts per 1000 sea-water.
1881 Proc. Royal Soc. 32 495 (table) Parts per million.
1902 E. A. Schäfer Essent. Histol. (ed. 6) 397 Zenker's fluid (which is Müller's fluid containing 5 parts per cent. of mercuric chloride).
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xiv. 329 Certain soils..contain about 20 to 100 parts per million of this element.
1959 T. R. E. Southwood & D. Leston Land & Water Bugs Brit. Isles xiv. 395 Waters with from 5 to about 18 parts per thousand of salt in solution.
1993 N.Y. Times 24 Mar. a16/2 Reducing dioxin levels to the Federal standard—less than 13 parts per quintillion in drinking water.
3. gen.
a. A piece or section of something which together with another or others makes up the whole (whether actually separate from the rest or not); an amount, but not all, of a thing or a number of things (material or immaterial); any of the smaller things into which a thing is or may be divided (in reality or notionally); a portion, segment, constituent, fraction. Frequently with plural agreement when denoting a number of people or things.In Old English, and usually in Middle English, this sense was expressed by deal (deal n.1).integration by parts: see integration n. 2.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun]
deala800
doleOE
endOE
lotlOE
partyc1300
parta1325
specec1330
portiona1387
piecec1400
proportion1443
parcellingc1449
faction1577
piecemeal1603
proportional1856
a1325 St. Brendan (Corpus Cambr.) 414 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 194 (MED) Anoþer uyss..smot to him..And forclef is foule bouk in þre partis [c1300 Laud partyes] attelaste.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xxxvii. 21 A shrewde woord schal chaunge þe herte of þe whiche foure partis springen: good and euel, lijf & deþ.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2096 (MED) Þof þe werld es..Delt..In thrin parteis principale, Þe partes er noght perigale.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 8 O part is at Parys & the oþer part is at Costantynoble.
c1450 J. Metham Palmistry (Garrett) in Wks. (1916) 86 (MED) That parte the qwyche ys be-twene the tryangyl and the schewyng fyngyre ys clepyd the hylle off the schewyng fyngyr.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1214 (MED) The mastirs of this arte Euerych of theyme discloside but a parte.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 34 One lovyng a nother as membrys & partys of one body.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 7v The whole is equal to all his partes taken together.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. vii. 22 He wil consume these nations in thy sight by litle and litle and by partes.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 292 Of all parts of the countenance the eyes are most powerfull, being as the soule's window.
1685 A. Behn tr. F. La Rochefoucauld in Misc. 377 The least part of Gallanty is Love.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. iii. §8. 392 Let the Diameter AB of the Circle..be divided into two equal parts in the point C.
1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. II. iii. 264 The greatest part of the Indian cavalry were cut to pieces.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 168 Leading-part, that part of a tackle which is hauled upon.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxvii. 338 Whatever is the part of a part, is a part of the whole.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 443 I agree, Socrates, in the greater part of what you say.
1931 H. Read Meaning of Art II. 103 The principle that in painting a part must be sacrificed for the good of the whole.
1989 C. Caufield Multiple Exposures (1990) 253 The splitting of an atom's nucleus into several parts.
2002 Cheshire Life Aug. 16/1 A small part of the wattle and daub has been left exposed..in the Tudor cottage.
b. Without article. Some, a part; †something (obsolete). Frequently with plural agreement when denoting a number of people or things. †great part (of): a great part (of), much or many (of) (obsolete). most part: see Phrases 1a(c). some part: see Phrases 1a(b).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided
dealinga1300
divisionc1374
partc1392
spacec1392
long divisionc1400
severingc1400
skyvaldc1400
foddinga1425
panelc1450
partition1561
roomstead1600
canton1601
separation1604
share1643
scissurea1667
cutting1726
departmenta1735
segment1762
compartment1793
distribution1829
segregation1859
dept.1869
section1875
tmema1891
c1392 Equatorie of Planetis 30 (MED) Tak than thy blake thred..& streche forth vp vn to vpperest part of the same epicicle.
1449 J. Paston Petition in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 52 And part there-of sold and part there-of yaffe, and the remenaunt thei departed among them.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 36 The eleven kyngis with parte of hir knyghtes rushed furthe as faste as they myght.
a1500 Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 746 (MED) Lat vs haue parte of his Corne & of his goode.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) ii. 144 Off Abrahame now schall yhe here Parte wryttine in this chapitere.
1531 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John in Wks. (1849) II. 324 Part of his laws are ceremonies.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xliv. 16 He burneth part thereof in the fire: with part thereof he eateth flesh. View more context for this quotation
1662 J. Smith England's Improvem. Reviv'd (1670) 269 Great part of their Fish is sold in other Countries for ready Money.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 395/2 Two Line Pins, with a Line lapped or raped about part of both.
1760 S. Johnson Idler 23 Feb. 57 The Road was passable only Part of the Year.
1778 G. L. Way Learning at Loss I. 155 I shall probably spend great Part of the Summer with him.
1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 705 Great part perished before they could reach the wall.
1853 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 5) Prol. 3 Part were drown'd within the whirling brook.
1874 J. C. Geikie Life in Woods (ed. 2) ii. 33 One end of my sister's loft was packed..with part of it [sc. furniture].
1955 D. Eden Darling Clementine vi. 61 The voice from the fireplace had been part of her dream.
1988 M. Gee Grace ii. 12 Part of her was happy to believe him.
2001 S. Strum Barcelona: Guide Archit. iv. 4 Part of the library is lit by cubic skylights that emerge in the courtyard.
c. An essential element; an integral portion of a larger whole. Also without article.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component
limbc1000
membera1382
elementc1386
parcelc1395
ingredientc1460
partc1530
ingredience1577
principle1594
simple1603
composer1610
partiment1641
component1644
constitutive1647
composite1657
integral1659
ingredient1674
aggregant1749
constituent1757
congredient1767
factor1816
integrant1825
inclusion1845
c1530 W. Walter Spectacle of Lovers sig. B.ii Though she be parte of my greate heuynesse I am chefe grounde of my mortall payne.
1555 M. Huggarde Mirrour of Loue l. 1371 Also as it is a part of honour, For subiectes to pay tribute to their kyng.
1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes i. 79 Good prayer suer may salue this greef This is a part of my beleef.
1688 A. Behn Lycidus 21 Love's a part of Human Duty.
1729 W. Law Serious Call i. 9 They must be made parts of our common life.
1745 E. Young Consolation 22 'Tis a prime Part of Happiness, to know How much Unhappiness must prove our Lot.
1838 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 10 That formed no part of our discussion.
1879 J. B. Mozley Serm. before Univ. Oxf. (ed. 4) 276 Affection is part of insight.
1954 F. L. Wright Natural House ii. 161 We use all ‘waste’ space: make it part of the house.
1991 M. Lawson Facing Conflict (BNC) 140 Change is part of life.
2000 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 390/1 Glamour was a part of their lives in the most natural way.
4. A portion of a human or animal body. Frequently in plural. Also: spec. (in plural) the genitals (cf. natural parts n. 1, private adj.1, adv., and n.).Frequently with modifying word, as hinder, inner parts, etc.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]
shapea1000
shameOE
i-cundeOE
memberc1300
privy memberc1325
kindc1330
privitiesc1375
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filthy parts1553
shamefulness1561
ware1561
meatc1564
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natural parts1601
lady's ware1608
gear1611
private parts1623
groin1631
pudendums1634
natural1650
privacies1656
sex1664
secrecyc1675
nudities1677
affair1749
sexual parts1753
person1824
sex organ1847
privates1940
naughty bits1972
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 424 The horrible, disordinat scantnesse of clothyng..shewen..the buttokes of hem, that faren as it were the hyndre part of a she ape in the fulle of the moone.
a1450 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Caius 336/725) (1970) 25 (MED) Þe 5 chapitre..Of apostumes of þe pappis þat comen of congelynge or cruddynge of mylk, & of þe oþere apostumes þat comen in þe brest part.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 10v (MED) Anothamye..is riȝtful diuicioun & knowynge of a mannys bodi & of hise singuler partis & membris.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xxxiii. 23 Thou shalt se my back partes, but my face shal not be sene.
c1550 Sir A. Barton in Surtees Misc. (1888) 73 In a previe place and a secrete perte, He shoote hime in at the left oxtere, The arrowe quiett throughe harte.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B8v Her neather partes misshapen, monstruous.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 115 The inner parts of Goates..are esteemed great dainties, especially in Toscany.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 41 A cloth which should couer those parts, made to be priuate.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 465 The grassie Clods now Calv'd, now half appeer'd The Tawnie Lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts . View more context for this quotation
1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 77 Wash the parts with Juice of Calamint.
1789 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (rev. ed.) II. 95 I had occasion to examine the parts [of a child] very attentively at the birth.
?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Yyy2v/2 Tergiant, volant, flying, showing the back part.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 558 The patches in such parts may then assume a salmon tinge.
1903 J. London Call of Wild vii. 208 Every part, brain and body,..was keyed to the most exquisite pitch; and between all the parts there was a perfect equilibrium or adjustment.
1958 S. A. Grau Hard Blue Sky 152 The young girls giggled and felt a hot touch in their parts.
1968 J. Updike Couples ii. 141 ‘Oh you have big——’ ‘Parts?’
1994 Daily Tel. 18 Nov. 17/8 Measures to ban the use of tiger parts in Oriental medicines have been agreed by 120 countries.
†5. An aspect or constituent of a quality or action, considered apart from the whole; a point, a particular; a respect. Cf. party n. 4. 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
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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. 99 (MED) The eldest sone of the noble kyng Henri the firþe..In euery part, the tarage is the same, Lyche his fader of maneris and of name.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 2045 (MED) Þis ȝonge lusty man..lyketh me in euery part.
1468 Inventory Munim. Earl of Crawford 4 Jan. II. 4 To ga betuex Wat Lindesay & al Wat of Ogilvyis clamys in that part.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 33 Quha likis till haif mar knowledge in that part Go reid.
a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 2204 And in all pairtis he suld amend it sone.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes ii. 545 Ye harde of the true partes and tokens of repentaunce.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 241 But at all insolent and vnwoonted partes of a mans behauiour, we find many times cause to mislike or to be mistrustfull.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxvi. 43 Perfection of parts, is when all the parts of goodnesse are found in a man.
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §142 Nothing can cure this Part of Ill-breeding but Change and Variety of Company.
1719 Bp. Robinson in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 200 If we neglect our duty in that part.
1755 G. A. Stevens Birth-day of Folly 14 See several stories relating to this last part of his character in a pamphlet.
6.
a. A division or section of a book, play, poem, etc.; a book, play, film, etc., designated as one of a series.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > book > series or set > [noun] > part of
part1424
volume1523
fascicle1647
pt.1654
number1728
livraison1784
fasciculus1845
fascicule1880
heft1886
1424 Glasgow v. Dumbarton 2, in Dumbarton Burgh Rec. (1860) In maner as is befor wrytten ather part til uther.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 39 Ȝif a man be pricked in þat place, it engenderþ a craumpe, and þen par consequens deþ foloweþ aftir, as galien seiþ in þe þrid parte [?c1425 Paris book] of tegni & in þe þrid partikel de ingenio sanitatis.
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 64 (MED) Here begynneþ þe third parte, of inwarde conuersacyon.
1551 W. Turner New Herball Prol. I haue set one part of a great herball.
1562 (title) The seconde parte of Guilliam Turners herball.
1594 (title) The first part of the contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster.
1602 D. Lindsay Satyre I. 63 Sen ȝe haif hard the first pairt of our play.
1677 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 44 I have presented your Lordship with the last part of Hudibras, to help to heighten your mirth this Christmasse.
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 2 Thro' various Parts our glorious Story runs; Time gives the Preface.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman Pref. When I began to write this work, I divided it into three parts... I now present only the first part to the public.
1826 E. Irving Babylon I. iii. 210 Which event is again braced to the former parts of the book.
1875 Public Health Act 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55 §3 This Act is divided into parts, as follows.
1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xvi. 285 Three acts..: each one in two parts, the first part ‘soloistic’, the second always uniting all the figures of the farce, as the tradition of opera buffa demanded.
1974 F. F. Coppola & M. Puzo (title of film) The Godfather Part II.
2002 N.Y. Mag. 17 June 88/2 Part one..covers the first ten years of Bowie's career.
b. spec. Each of the portions of a book issued at intervals in paper covers with a view to being subsequently bound together. Cf. part-work n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > publishing > a publication > [noun] > a serial or part publication
serial1834
part1842
serialism1847
part-work1969
1842 Godey's Lady's Bk. Oct. 202 Godfrey Malvern; or the Life of an Author. By Thomas Miller. This is the first number of a new work, which is to be issued in fifteen monthly parts.
1901 Daily Chron. 27 Dec. 3/3 The new Dickens would have to find a second Cruikshank to illustrate any novel issued in separate weekly parts.
1988 Library 10 p. xiv Single volumes and certain single parts of some volumes are available from Messrs. Kraus.
1994 Econ. Hist. Rev. 47 574 The most popular serials were removed and sold separately in penny weekly parts, later to be reissued in complete novel form costing 6d. or 1s.
†7. A particle of matter. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a particle
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1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica ii. 44 If spirit of Vitriol or any other acid Liquor be poured, it makes no alteration in the water, because of the similariness of parts between the acid spirit of Vitriol, and the acid solvent in the water.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 31 The Entrance of some such small aqueous Parts, as may excite the Fermentation.
1709 F. Hauksbee Physico-mech. Exper. (1719) ii. 36 Woollen impregnated with saline and spirituous parts.
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 88 Now the parts of the air,..being in this case driven asunder by some external interposition, such as fire, or any other agent.
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 278 The earthy principle, which is confounded with the indigo and some mucilaginous parts.
8. Any of the manufactured objects that go to make up a machine or instrument, now esp. a motor vehicle; a component. Usually in plural.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun]
work1570
parta1677
workings1744
machinery1758
machine part1888
componentry1959
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 98 This great Machine.., unimpaired in its beauty, unworn in its parts.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxiii. 141 That acuteness; which whilst, it discovered the secret contrivance of the Parts of the Machin, made him loose its use.
1734 J. T. Desaguliers Course Exper. Philos. I. 69 The skill of a good engineer may be advantageously applied in changing the form or altering the parts and motions of a machine.
1792 A. Adam Rom. Antiq. (ed. 2) 523 The principal parts of the machinery of a loom, vulgarly called the Caam or Hiddles, composed of eyed or hooked threads, through which the warp passes.
1808 J. Duncan Pract. & Descriptive Ess. Art of Weaving: Pt. II vi. 273 The chief working parts of the different power looms.
1886 D. Clerk Gas Engine 8 Barnett's second engine..is double-acting, and therefore requires a greater number of parts.
1897 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 38 217 Set of accessories, spare parts, and securing gear.
1923 Radio Times 28 Sept. 6 (advt.) The user of the ‘Gecophone’..may desire to purchase in his own locality spares and replacement parts.
1968 Amer. Speech 1967 42 40 Owner's manuals, parts catalogues, motoring publications from abroad.
1976 Nature 1 Apr. 391/3 Two fibres, called Kevlar and Kevlar 49 by Dupont,..look likely to be used in tyre belting and in composites for body armour and aircraft parts.
2001 Times 7 Nov. i. 25/8 The company, which makes parts for cars, had been protected from the downturn in the US auto industry.
†9. historical. A unit of time equal to 1/ 15 of an hour (4 minutes). Obsolete. rare.For the system of time reckoning to which this unit belonged, see atom n. 1. Cf. minute n.1 6a, moment n. 2a, ounce n.1 3, point n.1 6c.See also etymological note above.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > hour > [noun] > specific part of an hour
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prickleOE
punctOE
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pointa1398
half-hourc1420
quartera1500
glass1599
semi-hore1623
scruple1728
part1806
1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church II. x. 182 Each..admits of four different sub-divisions, into four points, ten minutes, fifteen parts or degrees, and forty moments.
II. Senses relating to an allotted portion or share.
10.
a. A portion of something allotted or belonging to a particular person; a share. Also without article: involvement, interest, concern. to have part: to share, partake (in, of). Now only in to have no part of and variants: to have nothing to do with. to have neither part nor lot in: see lot n. Phrases 4. See also art n.1 Phrases 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > sharing > [noun] > a share
lotOE
metc1225
partc1300
portion?1316
share1539
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quota1688
ration1850
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low1934
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun]
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c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 522 He moste kunne muchel of art, Þat þu woldest ȝeue þerof part.
c1330 in T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. (1839) 338 (MED) Whan everi man hath his part, the king hath the leste.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) Apoc. xx. 6 Blessid and holy he that hath paart in the first aȝen risyng.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 6875 (MED) He hadde his part, Whilom in loue, of Cupides dart.
a1500 Gospel of Nicodemus (Harl. 149) (1974) 72 (MED) Than the Jewes deuyded hys vestementes by chaunce, and euery man toke hys part.
a1563 J. Bale Brefe Comedy Iohan Baptystes in Harleian Misc. (1744) I. 114 My ways..with mennys ways haue no part.
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 23 We haue no part in Dauid, nor inheritance in the son of Isay.
1666 R. Baxter Call to Unconverted 238 You shall have part in the brother-hood..of the Saints.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 390 It was but just that she, who was so really concern'd for me, should have part in my good Fortune.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. viii. 78 We had neither, act or part, concern or interest therein.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. lx. 257 Tell him what we have done for Lord Glenvarloch, in whom he takes such part.
1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman i. 11 Death Can have no part in Beauty.
1912 A. H. Lewis Apaches N.Y. iv. 84 As I don't want no part of it, I screws out.
1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls 292 Maud Milligan is not such a doll as I will have care to have any part of, being red-headed, and very stern.
1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Feb. 45/2 He was one of those children..for whom viscous foods mean something unspeakable and who will have no part of them.
2002 Mirror 18 Mar. 17/2 This is a grudge match, and we should have no part of it.
b. That which is allotted (considered without reference to division or sharing); one's lot in life, fortune; what one receives or possesses; a reward. Now archaic and rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > personal destiny or one's lot
lotOE
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > an allotment without notion of sharing
parta1382
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xvii. 14 Þis is þe part of hem þat wastiden vs & þe lot of men tobreking vs.
c1395 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 650 I haue nat had no part of children tweyne But first siknesse and after wo and peyne.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 491 (MED) I caste, ȝif it myȝt haue be, Boþe in Ioie and in aduersite To haue had my part..Duringe my lyf, her amonge ȝou alle.
a1500 Wisdom of Solomon (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 179 For that I affirmyt to be my part of al my labore, to tak plesans of my gudis.
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 107v Blak be þair hour blak be þair pairt [rhyme hairt].
1603 W. Alexander Darius iii. i. sig. D4 Goe, beare this babe from hence: a wound too deep Makes in my breast compassion of his part.
1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. D4v O cruell part, Andreas bosome bears away my hart.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Hosea v. 7 Now shal a moneth devoure them with their partes.
1668 J. Austin Devotions 173 I shall not murmur at my part; Nor envy their success.
a1784 H. Alline Hymns & Spiritual Songs (1801) iii. ii And in those strains with all my heart, May I forever bear my part!
1858 J. M. Neale tr. Rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix (1865) 36 The Lord shall be thy part.
1886 W. Alexander St. Augustine's Holiday i. 77 The low base influence of the earth enthral me, Till I forget how I may bear my part.
1912 N. Gale Weary Heart & Weary Head in Song in September 176 And though I languish every day That Agony shall have her play, Handlocked with Hope I bear my part.
11. A person's share in some action; a duty; a business, concern, or affair; what one has to do. Also: the function of a thing.In early use in plural when referring to a number of people.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > duties > [noun]
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings ii. 36 Let me, I beseche, to oon prestis part þat I ete a mussel of bred.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 19585 (MED) Has þou na part..here..Ne thoru þin hend has þou na might To ger þe haligast at light.
?1453 M. Paston in Paston Lett. (1971) i. 252 He seyd itt was not his parte to do itt.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xi. 245 Be liklynes the mast cowart Semyt till do richt weill his part.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 227 (MED) Nyhenes of blode ne consanguynyte Be not acceptide to this dygnyte; So blode as blode may haue no parte, But only vertue wynnyth this holi arte.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 297 The partes of menne is, to reioyce in the behalf of the commenweale.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Ddddd.iv It is therefore our partes..to pray vnto our heauenly father.
1611 Bible (King James) Ruth iii. 13 But if hee will not doe the part of a kinseman to thee, then will I doe the part of a kinseman to thee, as the Lord liueth. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 561 Accuse not Nature, she hath don her part . View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 418. ¶7 It is the part of a Poet to humour the Imagination.
1773 H. Chapone Lett. Improvem. Mind II. 14 It is therefore your part to retire from such an occasion of sin.
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. xi. 279 Was it not a brother's part to go to a sister in affliction?
1882 Times 23 Sept. 4 The artillery did its part with its usual devotion.
1930 I. E. Mackay Indian Nights 199 The Wise know all things, but to tell of all they know is not the part of wisdom.
1990 N.Y. Times 29 Jan. a1/4 If she fails to do her part as a loyal gang member..she can face a ‘court-out’, in which there is no time limit to the beating.
2001 N.Y. Times 29 Apr. iv. 4/5 Eager to do their part to keep the long expansion [of the economy] alive, members of both parties agree..an immediate tax cut.
12.
†a. A character sustained, assumed, or feigned by a person, esp. for a special purpose. Also in extended use. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > assumption of behaviour or attitudes > part played or assumed by a person
personc1230
pageanta1425
partc1450
cue1581
role1606
figurea1616
mantle1658
assumption1871
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 361 Þan þe figour of a freke he sall take eftire And preualy in þat part a-pere ȝowe be-forne.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iv. sig. Q Where left, he went, and his owne false part playd.
a1732 J. Gay Fables (1738) II. vi. 47 The man of pure and simple heart Through life disdains a double part.
1885 Dict. National Biogr. at Thomas Blood It is not improbable that he was at this time..acting a double part, keeping the government informed of so much as might secure his own safety.
b. Originally Theatre. A character assigned to or represented by an actor in a play, film, etc.; a role. Also: the words assigned to or spoken by an actor playing such a character; a written or printed copy of these. Cf. to play (also act) the part (of) at Phrases 3d(a).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun]
personc1230
parcela1400
part1488
personagea1540
quality1566
shape1604
figurea1616
cast1631
character1664
rolea1731
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > script > part of
part1488
side1919
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 165 King Herodis part thai playit in-to Scotland Off ȝong childyr that thai befor thaim fand.
1495 in T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry (1825) 36 Payd for copyyng of the ij knyghts partes, & demons.
1584 in T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry (1825) 38 To Jhon Copestake, for playenge of Esron his parte xxd.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 246 Play-houses, where the parts of women are acted by women, and too naturally passionated.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 142 All the world's a stage..And one man in his time playes many parts . View more context for this quotation
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 264 Let euery man take his Qu, and perfect his owne part.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 180. ⁋6 They must be called off the Stage, and receive Parts more suitable to their Genius.
1765 J. Hoadly Let. 23 May in D. Garrick Private Corr. (1831) I. 185 I thought that Dodd was deficient even in coxcombliness in the part of Lord George Brilliant.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. viii. 296 I was sent on the boards in children's parts.
1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol I. 145 Minna in the ‘Pirate’ would be more the line of part to fall to you.
1933 V. Brittain Test. of Youth i. 43 Just before I left St. Monica's I played the part of the Madonna in Eager Heart.
1977 P. Scott Staying On (1978) x. 163 One day at rehearsals..I had to speak her part.
2000 J. Rosselli in J. Potter Cambr. Compan. Singing viii. 100 The baritone..[was] often cast in the part of a villain or ruler.
†c. Theatre. In extended use: an actor. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun]
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artist1714
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Thespian1827
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a1643 W. Cartwright Poems in Comedies (1651) sig. S3 Some who sat Spectators have..felt such shafts steal through their captiv'd sense, As made them rise Parts, and go Lovers thence.
13. Music. In music for two or more performers: the sequence of notes to be sung by a particular voice or played by a particular instrument; each of the constituent voices or instruments in a musical work. Also: a written or printed copy of this.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > part in harmony or counterpoint
parta1529
voice1593
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiv I synge of two partys without a mene.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lvii. 36 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 60 Thou my hart [MSS B, K, χ: harp] the consort make, My self will beare a part.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 1 Musicke bookes..being brought to the table: the mistresse of the house presented mee with a part, earnestly requesting mee to sing.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §225 The sweetest and best Harmony is, when every Part or Instrument, is not heard by it selfe, but a Conflation of them all.
1655 Campion's Art of composing Musick in Parts in J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick ii. 1 The parts of Musick are in all but four, howsoever some skilful Musitians have composed Songs of twenty, thirty, and forty parts.
1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick iii. 55 This one Voice or Part is mentioned as the greatest Excellency of the Temple Musick.
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 136 Organum..was a general term for a single part, or second voice, added to the melody of a chant.
1831 F. D. Hemans in H. F. Chorley Mem. (1836) II. 236 Braham's singing was not equal to the instrumental part, but he did not disfigure it by his customary and vulgarizing graces.
1889 E. Prout Harmony (ed. 10) iv. §94 Most music is written in four-part harmony, and the parts are generally named after the four varieties of the human voice... The highest part is called the treble, or soprano [etc.]
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 49 Dominic Kelly sang the first part by himself in the choir.
1966 Crescendo Feb. 35/1 Many drummers are with small groups or busking outfits and therefore never see a drum part from one Pancake Day to another.
1991 Music & Lett. 72 28 The entry is headed L'opera d'Amadigij del Seign. Hendel and refers not to a score but to a set of parts.
2000 J. Schaeffer in J. Potter Cambr. Compan. Singing ii. 23 There is a strong tradition of songs with three parts.
†14. A piece of conduct, an act. Usually with modifying word. Cf. Phrases 1e. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > an act or deed
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1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. X.iii Alonso Carillo..hauynge committed certein youthfull partes..was by the kinges commaundement caried to prison.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 532 Pausanias..committed many insolent partes by reason of the great authority he had.
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) A ij For your Honors many Honorable and friendlie parts, I have hitherto onely returned promises.
a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) i. ii. i. 155 He..after shewed him many other unkinde and unchildly parts.
1715 A. Pope tr. Dionysius in Homer Iliad I. ii. Observ. 9 Nothing is look'd upon as a greater Error in a Rhetorician than to alledge such Arguments as either are easily answer'd, or may be retorted upon himself, the former is a weak Part, the latter a dangerous one.
1760 C. Lennox Lady's Museum No. 8. 587 It would not be a friendly part to rob the poor girl of her sweetheart.
1843 H. W. Longfellow Spanish Student ii. iv. 84 I thought it but a friendly part to tell you What strange reports are current here in town.
1876 S. J. Watson Legend of Roses iii. i. 149 When we cannot make another happy, 'Tis not a friendly part to make him sorrow.
15. A personal quality or attribute, esp. of an intellectual kind; an ability, gift, or talent. Usually in plural. Now rare except in man (also woman, lad, etc.) of (many) parts n. a man, etc., who is talented or accomplished in many respects.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > ability or talent
enginea1393
virtuea1425
kindnessc1425
part1561
vogue1590
disposition1600
talent1602
genio1612
genius1649
turn1721
aptitude1793
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] > capacities, talents
part1561
lights1598
mentality1856
the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > ability or talent > a talent or special ability > collectively
naturalsa1400
sentimentc1470
part1561
natural parts1642
talents1656
eligibilities1660
outfit1851
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. L.iiiiv To set his delite to haue in himself partes and excellent qualities.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. ii. 54 For which of my bad parts didst thou first fal in loue with me? View more context for this quotation
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. iv. sig. H3 A gentleman of an exceeding fayre disposition, and of very excellent good partes . View more context for this quotation
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. i. 24 You shall first know him, then admire him For a man of many parts, and those parts rare ones.
1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity x. 210 Three things go to the making up of a minister, viz, 1. natural parts, that he be not a fool. 2. acquired parts, that he be learned in the languages..3. the Grace of God.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 197. ⁋5 Courage is the natural Parts of a Soldier.
1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1664 A man who is master of his matter will, with inferior parts, be too hard..for a man of better parts, who knows his subject superficially.
1827 G. Canning Poet. Wks. 38 But if, amongst this motley crew, One man of real parts we view.
1844 T. B. Macaulay Earl of Chatham in Ess. (1887) 818 Some of them were indeed, to do them justice, men of parts.
1894 ‘I. Maclaren’ Beside Bonnie Brier Bush (1899) 5 A Lad o' Pairts.
a1901 W. Besant Five Years' Tryst (1902) 196 At school the son was a steady lad, of good, not brilliant parts.
1916 J. W. Riley Compl. Wks. 178 It was a man of many parts, Who in his coffer mind Had stored the Classics and the Arts And Sciences combined.
1972 Physics Bull. Sept. 558/1 He was a man of many parts, achieving much in a short life.
2003 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Apr. 20 Mary-Anne Kenworthy is a woman of many parts—single mother, property owner, retailer and Rotarian.
III. Senses relating to a side, locality, or region.
16.
a. A physical side; a direction in space. Now archaic and rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > direction > [noun]
sideOE
wayOE
coast1377
partc1380
airta1400
quarter1604
carriage1663
direction1665
range1678
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 3517 (MED) Þe wyle þay entendiaþ to ȝowward, Y schal take out to anoþer pard & prykie fro hem.
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2185 Aboute this kyng ther ran on euery part Ful many a tame leoun and leopart.
a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) Num. ii. 25 At the north part settiden tentes the sones of Dan.
1448 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 8 (MED) All the Gistes shall be on the one part squar vj inches and on the other part viij inches.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 15 (MED) Thou suffrest him also to be chaungable, his fortune to be variable..on euery parte lokyng whanne warre shal be made vpon hym.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxx Made a bridge ouer the riuer on the part of saint Denis strete, & so escaped.
1574 W. Bourne Regim. for Sea (1577) Introd. 5 b If that the Sonne..be unto the North part, or Southe part of the Equinoctiall.
1611 Bible (King James) Luke xvii. 24 As the lightning that lighteneth out of the one part vnder heauen, shineth vnto the other part vnder heauen. View more context for this quotation
1673 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 251 Betuix..his lands on the wast part and the commoun gait.
1760 C. Lennox Lady's Museum No. 2. 143 View the wide expanse of ocean... Around its borders see growing on every part mosses and corals.
1774 T. Hutchinson Diary 7 Sept. [Norwich] is on every part walled in.
1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 12 A circular redoubt..distributes its fire equally on every part whether required or not.
1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. xiii. 39 He reached the ground Whereon that manor stood..full high, And was on every part inclosed around.
1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. IV. xvi. 208 New shout raised! rush in all the field forth legions: That hurl, now, back blue warriors, on all parts.
b. Either of two contrasting or correlative circumstances, considerations, points of view, sides of a subject, etc. Esp. in on (the) one part, on the other part. Cf. hand n. Phrases 1i(e).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > the opposite point
halfa885
part1485
counterpoint1599
ranverse1675
counterposition1861
contrapositive1870
countertype1880
antitype1926
1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 57 On that other parte he had grete drede.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Rawl.) (1974) 162 Yet on that othir parte, I woll shewe yow reason which ought to enflame your couragis.
1534 R. Cromwell Let. 17 Nov. in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 391 Neglecting of thone parte the kinges highnes honour to be preserued..of thother parte as it were contempnyng all frieendeship in giving place to a litle Lucre.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iv. 46 On the contrary part, his mind seeth not it selfe, but onely turneth into it selfe.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum ii. §200 Let him consider, on the one Part, the Motion of the Instruments of Voice; and on the other part the like sounds made in inanimate Bodies.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 159 The Law condemneth Duells; the punishment is made capitall: On the contrary part, he that refuseth Duell, is subject to contempt and scorne.
1714 Spectator No. 624. ⁋5 The Infidelities on the one Part between the two Sexes, and the Caprices on the other.
1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 139 Putrefaction on the one part, and gradual insinuation of stony particles on the other, until the petrifaction is completed.
1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. ii. 83 By love on one part, and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled.
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights I. 203 On the other part, I judged that I might lose nearly as much.
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. xiii. 174 Till lapse of sentences on the one part, and loss of favour..on the other, brought them here together to a common level.
1912 Dict. National Biogr. at Edward James Reed The demand on the one part for heavier armour and on the other for larger guns was insistent.
2001 Africa News (Nexis) 11 Apr. The relationship between democracy and the rule of law on the one part and press freedom on the other part is..one of inter-relationship.
†c. Genealogy. Kinship or descent through father or mother. Cf. side n.1 25. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > side
sideOE
part1558
1558 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. ii. App. v. 398 All other your majesty's ancestors..of the part of your said mother [cf. L. ex parte materna].
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 12 b The bloud of the part of the father is more worthy..in iudgement of law, than the bloud of the part of the mother.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 427 The Son of Hercules he justly seems..Of Heav'nly part, and part of Earthly Blood, A mortal Woman mixing with a God.
1754 G. Jeffreys tr. J. Vanière Country Farm xiii, in G. Jeffreys Misc. in Verse & Prose 215 But if the diff'rent clans in wedlock join, Beneath one roof, to propagate their line, The Father's better part will mark the race, And fruitful beds the choice alliance grace.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law x. 64 The brother of the half-blood, on the part of the father, will inherit next after the sisters of the whole blood on the part of the father and their issue.
17.
a. A side in a battle, dispute, question, contract, or other relation of opposing people or groups of people; a cause. Also in extended use. Now chiefly Law and humorous except in to take part with, to take a person's part: see Phrases 3c.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > side or cause
halfa885
side?a1300
quarrel1340
partya1375
parta1382
cause1588
quality1598
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Josh. viii. 22 On eiþer paarte aduersaryes weryn slawyn.
1384 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 349/1 This endenture made..betwix..Henry Percy..of the ta part and Archibald of Douglas lord of Galway on the tothir parte.
a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 363 Þe fend haþ þe strenger part here þan þe part of treuþe.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xiii. 780 (MED) Many Mo weren On Tholomes part Thanne On the Stewardis.
a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) i. iii. f. 4v (MED) Wisdam is..an abilite of kunnyng, wich abilite is indifferent to good and to euell, and thu appliest thin abilite to the werse part.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark ix. f. lviij Whosoever is not agaynste you, is on youre parte.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. A4 The victory to neither part inclinde.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 22 The times were too tender to endure them to be declarative on either part.
1700 M. Prior Carmen Sæculare 14 Betwixt the Nations let Her hold the Scale, And as she wills, let either part prevail.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xlvi. 148 ‘This’, said Imlac, ‘is a question which has long divided the wise, and perplexed the good. I am afraid to decide on either part.’
1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol I. 107 No word had been spoken on either part.
1884 Bythewood & Jarman's Prec. in Conveyancing (ed. 4) I. 402 An agreement made..Between ——..(the vendor) of the one part, and ——..(the purchaser) of the other part.
1910 Encycl. Brit. 1 302/2 A document..signed by or on behalf of the shipowner on the one part, and the shipper..on the other part.
1917 S. Leacock Frenzied Fiction vii. 115 Are they degenerate enough to bring an action against me, indicting the express company as a party of the second part?
1991 N. York Rock File (BNC) 241 Musicians' Union Standard Contract. For the engagement of a band/group for casual arrangements The Agreement made this day..between—..(hereinafter called the Engager) of the one part and—..(hereinafter called the Leader) of the other part.
†b. concrete. A party; a faction; a body of adherents. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun]
partyc1325
sidec1325
partc1385
livery1477
faction1509
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun]
partc1385
livery1477
faction1509
partialitya1533
side1566
party1682
set1748
democracy1803
machine party1858
column1906
MNLF1975
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2582 Arcite and eek the hundred of his parte.
1386 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 9 And..aythir part sal make warnyng til othir of xv dayes.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 10455 (MED) Boþe partis come to þe fight.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 761 Natwithstondynge the other parte hylde them so faste togydir tha[t] kynge Arthure and his knyghtes were overmacched.
1534 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 9 Bothe the seyde partes hathe ben more ardente now..then they were before.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccix He in dede would gladly haue pleased both parts.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iv. sig. D6 Then gan the part of Chalengers anew To range the field, and victorlike to raine. View more context for this quotation
1670 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1896) 30 20 Both pairtis is to sight ther goods ane to ane other or Hallowday.
†c. In plural. Conflict between parties or factions. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > factious strife or quarrel
seditiona1380
faction1549
parts1600
brigue1602
part-fray1631
stasis1933
1600 Looke about You sig. B2v Shift for thy selfe good Skinke, ther's golde, away: Heere will be parts.
1609 B. Jonson in C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. sig. A3v Cæsar..liv'd scarce one iust age, And that'midst enuy'and Parts.
18.
a. A portion of a country or territory, or of the world; a country, region, or area. Frequently in plural (often with collective rather than plural sense).In constructions such as parts of the world, the sense is simply 3a.In quot. 1833 spec. (in plural and usually with capital initial): each of the three administrative districts (Holland, Kesteven, and Lindsey) into which the county of Lincolnshire in eastern England was formerly divided.
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
the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun]
limbc1000
partyc1300
feature1393
member?a1400
partc1400
dimension1600
site1861
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun]
endc893
shirec893
estrec1275
sidec1325
bounds1340
provincea1382
partc1400
landmark1550
tract1553
canton1601
neighbourhood1652
district1712
section1785
circumscription1831
location1833
block1840
strip1873
c1400 Prose Versions New Test.: Matt. (Selwyn) (1904) ii. 23 (MED) Ioseph was amonestyd..how he schulde go in-to þe partys (þat is, to þe cuntrey) of Galyle.
1423 Petition in Fenland Notes & Queries (1907–9) 7 307 (MED) The most parte of this londe is charged with the grete habondance of water that has falne in the said partes.
1529 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 10 Personis duelland in ony pairtis beyond the said waltir of Fortht.
1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 19 Women in those partes, were not tamed nor embased by consideration of their own sex and kind.
1584 A. Barlowe in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) iii. 730 There came downe from all parts great store of people, bringing with them leather.
1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme iii. sig. F2v I am a meere stranger for these partes.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 2 One who ha's spent many years in foreign parts.
1724 G. Berkeley Proposal supplying Churches 3 To propagate the gospel in foreign parts.
1789 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 494 It's ten to ane ye'll find him snug in Some eldritch part.
1833 Rep. Select Comm. Munic. Corporations 334 The mixed jurisdiction in the Parts of Kesteven.
1875 W. Alexander My Ain Folk ix He's been an eefu' man i' the pairt.
1879 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 4 Jan. 2/4 He obtained the money, pocketed it and struck out for parts unknown.
1956 S. Beckett Waiting for Godot i. 36 You are not from these parts, you don't yet know what our twilights can do.
1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking vi. Introd. 423 The man I was looking for was a squarehead, as they call Swedes in this part.
2001 Times 14 Sept. ii. 7/1 Apparently they are all heavily into husband-swapping in these parts.
b. Astrology Part of Fortune n. the position of the moon in the heavens when the sun is in the ascendant.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > movement of moon > [noun] > position
Part of Fortune1579
noon?1606
noontide1823
1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ix. 234 If the part of Fortune be Cadent from the Ascendent.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Part of Fortune, in astrology, is said to be the Lunar Horoscope..from whence the Moon takes her progress at that very moment that the sun emerges from the East.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Horoscope Lunar Horoscope, is the Point which the Moon issues out of, when the Sun is in the ascending Point of the East. This is also call'd the Part of Fortune.
a1836 E. Smedley Occult Sci. in Encycl. Metrop. (1855) XXXI. 311 The Part of Fortune, is the distance of the moon's place from the sun, added to the degrees of the ascendent.
1992 Prediction May (Astrology section) p. xii/1 Saturn was in conjunction with the Lunar North Node and the Part of Fortune..both within 10–20° Pisces.
1998 Guardian (Nexis) 18 May (Editor section) 5 The first thing you notice about her horoscope chart is that she has the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Part of Fortune all in Cancer.

Phrases

P1. With a preposition.
a.
(a)
(i) in part: partly.
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
c1300 St. Lucy (Laud) 68 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 103 Woldestþou gon þare-Inne In part, riche man þou were i-nouȝ.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xiv. 5 Traielaphum: þat is a beste in part [a1425 L.V. in parti] liic an hert in part liic a got.
a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 351 It [sc. the Church] may be purgid in part.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 491 (MED) And hit shold not be lawfull..to selle..the said mese, nother in all nother in parte.
a1525 Bk. Sevyne Sagis 2187, in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 70 That ȝe sall fynd þe bulleris sevyne In part, ȝour questioun to declare.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 663 The lawes of the realme, in part he reformed, and in part he newely augmented.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Cor. xiii. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesie in part. View more context for this quotation
1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 374 To make himselfe righteous by his own works, either in whole or in part.
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 162 For when Rigging is in part shot, such Ropes are apply'd to prevent the damaged Ropes being quite broke off.
1784 E. Allen Reason i. §5. 50 His providence..is too sublime for finite capacities to understand but in part.
1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. p. cxlv (note) Nearly one-third of the population of Athens were, in part, supported by their attendance upon the courts of law in the quality of dicasts.
1878 R. H. Hutton Scott iii. 30 The lady herself was in part responsible for this impression.
1917 C. H. Snow Wood & Org. Struct. Materials iv. 42 An encased knot is one which is surrounded wholly or in part by bark or pitch.
1994 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Nov. 43/2 Drinking and driving is decreasing, due in part to high-profile education campaigns.
2002 Nature Conservancy Spring 21/2 Eglin has the right stuff for red-cockaded woodpeckers, in part because lots of old trees have been left unlogged.
(ii) in parts: partly; in some aspects or elements, esp. when these are distributed incidentally within a larger whole. Cf. in places at place n.1 Phrases 2a(e).With quot. 1905 cf. curate's egg n. 2
ΚΠ
1526 Grete Herball xcii. sig. F.iii The other kinde [of cassia] draweth also toward russet or gray and hath in partes dyuers coloures.
1782 Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 345 The soil was..in parts rather inclining to a shaly structure.
1818 A. Neale Trav. through Germany, Poland, Moldavia, & Turkey 31 The country immediately around Lubec is very beautiful, in parts resembling Windsor forest.
1905 Minister's Gaz. Fashion Aug. 141/1 The past spring and summer season has seen much fluctuation. Like the curate's egg, it has been excellent in parts.
1973 Listener 8 Feb. 167/2 The Appeal Court..found the [Warhol] film dull, dreary, and offensive in parts.
2017 Whitby Gaz. (Nexis) 20 Apr. So its food offering was hardly Michelin starred—but nor was it just a token gesture. Unspectacular, but good in parts.
(b) in some part: to some extent, somewhat. Similarly in great (also small, large, no, equal, etc.) part.
ΚΠ
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 64 (MED) Yit woll I fonde To wryte and do my bisinesse, That in som part..The wyse man mai ben avised.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 104v The lions lepe aboute the necke of bellorophon som tyme in suche nombre that in no parte he myght be seen.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 1178 Off Wallace mar in sum-part spek will we.
c1550 Clariodus (1830) ii. 177 Sir, brokin ar your harnes in sum part, Quhairfor I yow beseike..That ye wald weir this harnes for my saike.
1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie Pref. to Rdr. sig. ⋆⋆⋆⋆2/v I haue..saied so much, as maye in greate parte suffise to instruct and prepare thy Attention to the reading and vnderstanding of [etc.].
a1591 H. Smith Sinfull Mans Search (1592) sig. C4 That which we can performe but in small part, he is content to accept as whole.
1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 9 Plannets are said to goe backe, when removing themselves, they goe not forward their course, but returne backe the way they came, in some part.
1641 J. Pym Declar. to House of Commons 35 And of this obstruction, (my Lords) I must clear the Commons, we are in no part guilty of it.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 747 Yet in some part to recompense My rash but more unfortunate misdeed. View more context for this quotation
1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. iii. 19 What you say seems plausible enough, and is in some Part true.
1760 Ayscough's Nottingham Courant 20 Sept. 2/2 He was a most shocking spectacle to behold..and..he seemed in great part insensible.
1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) I. iv. 75 Can freedom be regulated without being..in some part destroyed?
1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso iii. 57 Our vows Were, in some part, neglected and made void.
1840 W. B. Rogers Rep. Progress Geol. Surv. State Virginia 1839 iii. ii. 45 It is a whitish gneiss, composed in large part of quartz in grains, with a little mica.
1875 Ladies' Repository Aug. 143/1 There is a simplicity and grandeur about the great nave..that in some part makes up for the artistic defects of the building.
1876 F. Martin Hist. Lloyd's i. 2 These Merchants of the Steelyard, in great part founders of our foreign commerce,..were also the originators of marine insurance in England.
1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 740/2 The slowness of his gait and the shortness of his steps were in some part due to the half-Wellingtons which he habitually wore.
1986 Gravitation, Cosmol., & Cosmic-Ray Physics (U.S. National Res. Council) ii. 19 A measurement..will be greater the nearer a massive body lies to the path of propagation, owing in part to the principle of equivalence and in equal part to space curvature.
1991 Coarse Fishing Feb. 4/2 The problem with anglers, and in some part angling clubs, is that the demand is always the same, give us more fish.
2011 T. Jollimore Love's Vision i. 25 Loving someone is, in large part, a kind of positive, appreciative response to her in virtue of her attractive, desirable, or otherwise valuable properties.
(c) for (the) most part: as regards the greatest or greater part; in most cases, on the whole, mostly. for the more part: as regards the greater part; on the whole, usually, mainly, mostly (now rare).
ΘΚΠ
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
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 4 For the moore part they lowe and pleyde.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 138 Þei ben all, for the moste part, all Pygmeyes.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 333 The venemous bestes, that venyme all folke, are frendes [read fendes] that for the more parte distroien all man kynde.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. vi. 65 Words monosillable which be for the more part our naturall Saxon English.
c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 205 The auld fundationis,..and utheris wreittis,..of kirklandis war for the maist pairt distroyed.
1685 A. Lovell tr. R. Simon Crit. Hist. Relig. Eastern Nations xii. 123 Bishopricks and Monasteries,..for most Part, in great Disorder.
a1760 T. Gifford Hist. Descr. Zetland (1786) vii. 64 The Umboth tythes are for the most part a rental tythe.
1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. viii. 166 The shops were for the most part closed.
1898 F. W. Maitland Township & Borough 6 The strip-owners are for the more part colleges.
1936 C. Day Life with Father 149 For the most part nobody wrote to me when I was a small boy except firms whose advertisements I had read in the Youth's Companion.
1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) x. 97 (caption) The seas were probably, for most part, shallow as for example the Belt Series Sea in the west.
2002 Philadelphia Inquirer 14 Apr. e3/3 For the most part, consumers are perfectly content with mass manufacturing.
(d) chiefly U.S. in (the) most part: = for (the) most part at Phrases 1a(c).
ΚΠ
1833 W. G. Simms Bk. my Lady 162 This, indeed, is in most part, the history of American sway in the valley of the Mississippi.
1857 Sat. Courier (Philadelphia) in E. Bennett Border Rover (front matter) His works..are, in most part, taken from events connected with the history of our own country.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 May e11 This claim is, ‘in the most part, simply untrue,’ said league president Joseph Benedict.
1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 Sept. 14/3 I am a white, middle-class, female Angelino who agrees in most part with Cornel West.
b. for one's (own) part: as regards one's personal share in a matter; as far as one is concerned. Cf. Phrases 1c(b).Formerly also occasionally in plural when used of a number of people.
ΘΚΠ
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
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 321 (MED) An yhe is as a thief To love and doth ful gret meschief And also, for his oghne part, Fulofte thilke firy Dart Of love..Thurgh him into the herte renneth.
?c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Huntington) 620 Life yn deserte..Mai a-ȝeyne dethe haue respite noon ne space Atte vnsette owre his comyng dothe not tarie And for my parte welcome be goddes grace.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 3013 Syr Anasore the knyght And ser Darell..Eche for his parte quyte hym self full wele.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii.137 We oughte to offer yt vp vnto hym with thankeynges for his parte & meke our selfe for our parte.
1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Administr. Lordes Supper sig. N.iiv I for my part am here present.
1602 E. Hayes in J. Brereton Briefe Relation Discouerie Virginia 19 It remaineth onely for our parts, to carrie and transport people with their prouisions from England.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 75 But as for our part, we shall tell The naked Truth of what befell.
1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 400 Of their Skil in Magick much is spoken in Ancient Writers, but for our Part we are Infidel as to that Power, and therefore shall pass it over.
1762 W. Whitehead School for Lovers iv. i. 57 I wish all the women were in the bottom of the sea, for my part.
a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 185 For my own part, I have no hope of any material benefit.
1879 H. James Confidence II. xxxi. 249 For my own part, I am very glad you were away.
1951 C. Hare Eng. Murder xiii. 158 Dr. Bottwink, for his part, appeared quite at ease.
1977 E. Heath Travels ix. 173 For their part the government received a reasonable return that was in no way a deterrent to those engaged in private enterprise.
2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Apr. 71/1 For his part, Gore is trying to reveal compassionate conservatism as political sleight of hand.
c.
†(a) of the part of (also of a person's part): = on the part of at Phrases 1c(b). Obsolete.Occasionally in plural when used of a number of people.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > in relation to [phrase] > as far as he, she, or it is concerned
of a person's parta1425
on a person's parta1425
of the part of1609
on the part of1667
a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Claud.) Isa. v. 4 Gloss. No thing faylide of my part, that ne it ouȝte to make the beste werkis, and it dide the worste thingis.
1450 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 57 Desiryng me to ride to Salesbury to þe Lord Moleyns, promyttyng of their part that thei wolde moeve the Lord Moleyns so þat þei trusted I shuld haue myn entent.
c1530 To My Heart's Joy 9 in Polit. Relig., & Love Poems 40 Yf ye liste to haue knoweliche of my part, I am in hel [= health], god thanked mote he be, As of body.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. vi. 4 b [The] Moores, to whom of our partes was made good cheere.
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica 262 King Nestor..Gainst whom marcht Philon, of the part of Troy.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vi. 2 Of the part of England. View more context for this quotation
a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1627) 6 We of our parts saluted him in a very lowly and submissive manner.
1745 E. Hayward Female Spectator II. 162 If the War should conclude without receiving any Satisfaction of the Part of Spain, for the Insults and Damage we have received from her.
1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. xiii. 183 [Her] every bound and every swing was followed by a leap of the heart among those who stood near me..and by correspondent inclinations of the part of those who were a little further off.
(b) on the part of (also on a person's part): on the side of, as regards (a person); as far as (a specified person) is concerned; proceeding from (a specified person or party) as agent; done or committed by.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > in relation to [phrase] > as far as he, she, or it is concerned
of a person's parta1425
on a person's parta1425
of the part of1609
on the part of1667
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iv. 181 I not on yow who that this charge leyde, But, on my part [v.r. for myn part], ye may eftsone hem telle, We usen here no wommen for to selle.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 460 On my part no defaute hath be.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Pet. iv. 14 On their parte he is evyll spoken of: but on youre parte he is glorified.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 11836 Priam, on his part, & his prise knightes..no swyke thoghtyn.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ix. 30 The warlike dame was on her part assaid Of Claribell and Blandamour attone. View more context for this quotation
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §2. 183 Without any cause, or provocation on Israels part.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 7 Foul distrust, and breach Disloyal on the part of Man,..On the part of Heav'n Now alienated, distance and distaste. View more context for this quotation
1740 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature III. ii. 195 Any transgressions of conjugal fidelity on the part of the wife.
1790 W. Bligh Narr. Mutiny on Bounty 3 Every endeavour on my part was answered with threats of death.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 503 The conclusion, that no excess of tyranny on the part of a prince can justify active resistance on the part of a subject.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 18 No objection on my part, I said.
1920 R. Macaulay Potterism ii. i. 54 That sort of thing is mainly a pose on Juke's part.
1978 I. Murdoch Sea i. 51 It was the profoundest humblest tact on her part, and on mine a love that was composed of gentle gratitude.
2000 Independent 8 Jan. ii. 2/3 The Home Secretary's decision..reflects a shameful lack of political will on his part.
†d.
(a) on part: apart. Cf. apart adv.1 Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > apart or asunder [phrase]
in ( on) twoc890
from sunderOE
to set in sunderc1325
in twinnyc1380
in (on) twain1398
in (into) twaya1400
on twina1400
on part1485
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. xv. sig. b.iijv We wille go on parte.
1530 R. Whitford Werke for Housholders (new ed.) sig. Divv Yf there be a sermon..let them be there present all þt ben not occupyed in nedeful & lawful busynes, all other layde on parte.
(b) Scottish. of part: apart. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1709 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) II. 591 The persones following..who removed themselfes to a place of part.
e. in good part: favourably, without offence. in ill (also evil) part: unfavourably, with offence. Similarly in better part, in best part, in worst part, etc. Chiefly with take. Cf. sense 14. [Compare classical Latin in bonam partem accipere, or interpretārī.]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > disfavouring [phrase]
in ill (also evil) part1529
out of conceit with1693
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [adverb] > in feeling or intention
wellOE
in greec1374
in good part1529
with or in good (goodly) gree1542
1529 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 4 May (1933) 16 My trust is that your Highnes wil accepte in good parte my true harte and good wil.
1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Eiii A louer best loued hath paines in like wise As here hath apered by sondry weys Which sheweth his case in wurst part to rise.
1540 T. Wyatt Let. to Henry VIII 3 Feb. (BL MS Harley 282 in K. Muir Life & Lett. (1963) 135 Altho I know it be not so ment to charge your maieste in so evill part that ye shold be so movid therby.
1559 J. Knox Let. 20 July in Wks. (1864) VI. 50 Interprete my rude words in the best part.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxvv Fearinge lest the duke should it take in euyll part.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xxii. 28 b Bread, wine, and sweet water..were accepted in better parte then the answeare of the grand maister.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 329 And my selfe, take that wrong..To Hector, in worst part of all.
a1668 J. Renwick Choice Coll. Serm. (1776) 580 Only desiring that what I have said ye would not take in ill part.
1704 E. Ward Revels of Gods 103 With that the Gods smil'd, took it all in good part, And drunk round a Bumper to ev'ry true Heart.
1757 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. II. i. 434 The Parliament took this remonstrance in very ill part.
1811 L. Aikin Juvenile Corr. 81 I knew the poor old fellow meant it well, so I took it all in good part.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xviii. 160 I am sure that he will take it in good part.
1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xii. 163 This gesture, which I admit I may have misinterpreted, was certainly taken in bad part by the policeman.
1982 P. Fitzgerald At Freddie's viii. 65 Old Ernest did not take this in good part.
2002 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Nov. 18 Most took it [sc. the media attention] in good part, but not Bernie.
P2. With an adjective.
a. (the) most part: (a) the greatest or greater part, the majority, most; †(b) (as adv.) mostly, mainly, on the whole (obsolete). †(the) most part all: almost all (obsolete). (the) more part: the greater part, the majority (now rare).
ΘΚΠ
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
a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 13 Þe meste part of þe lond bygon forte synge, ‘Alas, ant weylawo!’
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 19049 A mon croked in þe palesy, And had ben moost part of his dayes [a1400 Vesp. mast all; a1400 Gött. mast all].
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5381 Þe mest parte þere-of hij slowen.
c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 230 The more part of thise, and in especiall of theym that dwell nygh vnto the waters side, be blak of coloure.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. 772 The towne was than mooste parte all the houses covered with strawe.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xix. 32 The moare parte knewe not wherefore they were come togedder.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 166 [Mankynde] leuand maist part in all vice.
1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course i. f. 13 They ride the most part, without sadles, spurs, or shoes on their horses.
1610 Acta Capit. Christ Church, Canterbury 17 July (MS.) To ymbarn in the Barnes..all or the more part of the tythe corne.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxiv. 150 Amongst such kind of collective Ideas, are to be counted most part of artificial Things.
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 48 Their Spendthrift Sons..have dipt most part of their Estates in Judgements, Bonds, and Warrents.
1711 J. Anderson Countrey-man's Let. to Curat 95 He goes Generally in Winter in good thick Rug, and in Summer most part in a Highland Plaid.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 21 Since pulpits fail, and sounding-boards reflect Most part an empty ineffectual sound.
1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece X. ii. lxxvi. 21 During most part of the Peloponnesian war, Cyprus became sensibly dishellenised.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 117 The more part of them perished by falling over the rocks.
1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. II. 159/1 He entered the diplomatic service as attaché..in 1840, during most part of which year he was employed in Egypt.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. a 16/1 While individual exposures have, for the more part, been kept well below the regulatory limit..the collective dose has dramatically increased.
1990 EMBO Jrnl. 9 4184 (caption) Long (3) viruses, including most part of the G protein ectodomain, was amplified as illustrated at the top.
b. some part: (a) an (unspecified) part, some; †(b) (as adv.) to some extent, somewhat (obsolete).
ΚΠ
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 668 (MED) Som part I thenke to declare..unto thin Audience.
1416 in W. Fraser Red Bk. Menteith (1880) I. 287 Help us with some pairt of dispens.
c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 169 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 34 Nero..was þan sum part rade.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 7 Jt [sc. the vision] be sum part subtile to vnderstand.
1570 R. Sempill Tragedie in Forme of Diallog sig. a.iv Lord Darlie Of quhais rair bewtie, scho did sumpart farlie.
a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) iv. i. 125 Certane lymmaris quhilkis..had sum parte inquiet the cuntre.
c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1922) II. 41 This appeiris to be sum pairt contrarius.
1667 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 202 [He] was owt att sea some pairt of that tyme.
1725 M. Davys Lady's Tale in Wks. II. 201 Your Arguments with your Father about Adrastus, were not only too pert for a Daughter, but some part of them were very weak.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 352 Apophthegms, or wise sayings, like the Proverbs of Solomon, the verses of Theognis and Phocyllides, and some part of the works of Hesiod. View more context for this quotation
1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xxii. 378 Sir John Johnson and some part of his royal Yorkers.
1891 Dict. National Biogr. XXVI. 30/2 Most of his difficulties were of his own making; some part of them, however, arose from the change which was passing over the spirit of the constitution.
1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xlv. 441 Frequently, some part of the total hardness is removed by boiling; this is called temporary hardness.
1991 J. Lawson Ballet-maker's Handbk. (BNC) 40 The music by Benjamin Britten includes some part of the War Requiem.
1999 Building Design 13 Aug. 11/2 Theories of architecture as urbanism,..urban experience and globalism are all evident in some part of the exhibition.
P3. As the object of a verb.
a. to take part: †(a) to share or partake (in, of, or with) (obsolete); (b) to participate (in). Cf. senses 10a, 11.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (intransitive)]
scot?c1225
deal1297
partc1300
to take partc1384
departc1440
skair1462
impart1471
participate1531
communicate1541
to part stakes (also shares)1553
boot1554
partake1561
intercommune1601
copart1637
to go sharers1644
to run shares1644
intervene1646
go1653
to go a share1655
to share and share alike (formerly also like)1656
to go shares1658
to go share and share alikea1661
to go snips (or snip)1671
to go snacks (or snack)1693
to club one's shares1814
to cut in1890
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)] > participate
common1357
to take partc1384
communea1393
participe1511
participate1531
join1560
share1570
to bear a part1596
intercommon1626
to join in1785
to be in it1819
to stand in1858
to get into (also in on) the act1947
(to be) in on the act1951
to muck in1952
to opt in1966
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > have to do with or be involved in or with > take part in
leadOE
to take partc1384
to sit in1601
enter1603
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 1 Cor. x. 30 Therfore if I take part with grace, what am I blasfemyd, for that I do graces or thankyngis?
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Heb. ii. 14 Therfore for children comuneden to fleisch and blood, and he also took part of [L. participavit] the same.
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 220 Þe liȝt of verry holy feiþ..is necessarie to euery creature þat haþ resoun and desireþ to take part of þe liif of grace.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 39 If ani of prestis..hold concubyn opunly..we bid him..syng no messe,..ne dwel not wiþ prestis, ne tak no part of þe kirk.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxi. 245 Such as regarded her were constrayned to take parte of her sorow.
1521 Will of R. Goodyere in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 332 I gyf xxd to haue..my nebowres which doith honor god the day of my beriall wt oblacion to comme home to my house and take parte wt a potte wt ale.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ix. sig. I3v Each one taking part in others aide. View more context for this quotation
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. vi. 66 in Wks. II Sir, will it please you, enter in here..and take part of a silken gowne..or a wrought smocke; I am promis'd such: and I can spare any Gentleman a moity.
1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. ii. v. 119 The child takes part of the mothers life whilst he is in the womb.
1731 E. Thomas Pylades & Corinna xv. 80 She had..bespoke a Dinner, but run away and left it, and if he pleased, he should be welcome to take part of it.
1785 T. Holcroft Follies of Day i. 22 Be obedient, polite, and brave, and be certain we shall take part in your Prosperity.
a1825 A. L. Barbauld Legacy for Young Ladies (1826) 227 One..who will take part in all our schemes, advise us in any emergency.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 19 Philebus..takes no further part in the discussion.
1924 R. H. Mottram Spanish Farm ii. 150 Madeleine took no part in the conversation, but sat looking at Skene.
1958 New Statesman 15 Mar. 333/1 A..‘warm-up’, in which those taking part get to know each others' names and voices.
1989 D. Morrow & M. Keyes Conc. Hist. Sport in Canada 298 Indonesia decided to hold its own..Games..in Jakarta in 1963, and persuaded the People's Republic of China to take part.
2001 Times 1 Nov. 20/1 He was one of the pilots in 603 Squadron who took part in dog-fights over the Channel.
b. to choose (also †take) the better (also †best) part: to make the better or worthier choice, esp. to choose a life of prayer and contemplation over a more practical one; to do what is right.Chiefly with allusion to Luke 10:42 (Vulgate 10:43) (see quot. c1384); cf. Mary n.1 2, Martha n. 1.
ΚΠ
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke x. 43 Marie hath chose the beste [v.r. betere] part, which schal not be take a wey fro hir.
1590 Myrror for Martinists 1 I cannot but on the one side condemne the late Martine libellers..and on the other side mislike some repliers who, notwithstanding they have chose the better part, yet handle it not so charitably and modestly as it requireth.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iii. iv. Rule 20 §16 It is not certain that they took the better part when they chose ustulation before marriage.
1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xvii. 171 Those who have chosen the better Part, and consecrated themselves by Vow to God.
1832 L. E. Landon Easter Gift 21 He left his youth and life behind..pleasures and vanities resigned, Content to choose the better part.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 125 It fell out with me..that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep it.
1927 Polit. Sci. Q. 42 289 Although they were denounced as rebels and traitors.., Kentucky felt that these rebellious sons had chosen the better part.
1962 B. Battershaw & G. R. Lamb tr. F. van der Meer Augustine Bishop viii. 216 The holy fountain of life..remained defiled by the blemish of lust... The continens had chosen the better part.
2001 Commonweal (Nexis) 9 Mar. 8 Furthering the transcendent spiritual life of a parish is, as Mary rather than Martha would understand, to choose the better part.
c.
(a) to take (a) part with: to side with, range oneself on the side of (now rare). to take (a) part against: to side against, oppose (now rare).
ΘΚΠ
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
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1203 Hit lyked us to take a parte with you in youre distres in this realme.
1481 in H. Rose & L. Shaw Geneal. Deduction Family Rose of Kilravock (1848) 145 To tak afovld part wyth the said baron.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1059 (MED) Vertu was full heuy, when he sy Frewyll Take part with Vyce.
1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Aiii The Jewes cryed out against Christ, taking part with the hyghe pryestes.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 57 If the iudge hymselfe by aformer tale be perswaded to take part against vs.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 13 To take part Against Olympius.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 329 Of which the Irish that are vested by restoration, seem rather to take part with the divested.
1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature II. ii. 195 I am interested in them; take part with them.
1822 W. Scott Halidon Hill i. ii. 67 O, were my western horsemen but come up, I would take part with you!
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 17 559/1 Some took part with him, some with Carrol.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour ix. 164 The Scots auxiliary troops, who took a part with the French forces at the battle of Fontenoy.., appeared with shields or targets.
1894 ‘A. Hope’ Prisoner of Zenda xx. 272 He took a part against Rupert, putting himself forward more bravely than any in his anxiety to avert suspicion.
1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. I. 235/2 Booth seems to have rendered himself unpopular by taking part with the Lancastrian ministers, Suffolk and Somerset.
1914 E. Nesbit Many Voices (1922) 84 Let the whole host of Heaven take part with my dear in his fight.
2002 Pakistan Newswire (Nexis) 10 Sept. He said that Education plays a vital role against terrorism and each man and woman will have to take part against terrorism.
(b) to take the part of: to take the side of; to support or back up (a person). Also to take a person's part.Formerly also occasionally in plural when used of a number of people.
ΘΚΠ
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
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1220 (MED) I haue gret meruayll Ye durst be so bolde Vyces part to take.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxiiij They shall doubtles haue mo to take theyr parts.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 221 War ȝour father leifand ȝeit I wald tak his pairt.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 178 Am not I here to take thy part? Then what has quail'd thy stubborn heart?
1678 N. Lee Mithridates v. ii. 77 Pompey the Great is entred; And those who took your part, are all revolted.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. ix. 338 He took your part in this war.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. xi. 305 The Women especially were unanimous in taking the Part of Jones. View more context for this quotation
1799 C. Ludger tr. A. von Kotzebue Reconciliation ii. v. 44 Your friends took your part, whilst his friends did the same by him.
1816 J. Austen Emma I. xi. 201 You and I, Emma, will venture to take the part of the poor husband. View more context for this quotation
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 251 Zeus sent him flying for taking her part when she was being beaten.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. v. 70 He was bad, and the people who took his part against her were bad. But she was good!
1989 G. Vanderhaeghe Homesick x. 146 Sometimes she couldn't stop herself from butting in..and taking Daniel's part.
1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 247 In his book..he took the part of those who diverge from the norm of the Volksgemeinschaft.
d.
(a) to play (also act) the part (of): to act as or like; to perform the function of. to play (also act) a (also one's) part: (a) to perform an (assigned or expected) function or role; to participate in; (b) to make a pretence, dissemble.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave, conduct, or bear oneself [verb (intransitive)] > behave or make as though
to find one's countenanceOE
to make (a) countenancec1380
to play one's pageanta1425
to play (also act) a (also one's) part1540
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (intransitive)]
playa1450
to play (also act) a (also one's) part1540
representa1547
act1598
interlude1608
personate1623
to tread the stage (the boards)1691
perform1724
to go on1769
theatricalize1794
histrionize1851
play-act1856
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. i. sig. Nivv He..playeth his parte stoutely or lyke a man.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. l Homfrey Cheiny pleiyng the parte of a good blood hounde, foloed the tract of ye flyer.
a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 98 Quodcumque ligaueris I trow will playe soch a parte That I shall abyde in Englond, magry yowr harte.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iv. sig. Kv Each one of vs must act his parte, In vnknowne languages, That it may breede the more varietie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. iv. 25 That part, thou (Pisanio) must acte for me. View more context for this quotation
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick Printer to Rdr. The friends of the Sick must play their part, or all will not be well.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 87 None ever acted both parts bolder, Both of a Chieftain and a Souldier.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxv. 53 You have still an honourable part to act.
1791 J. West Edmund Ironside ii. vi, in Misc. Poems 169 Emma, resume thyself, and act the part Of steady Honour.
1798 W. Wordsworth Peter Bell Prol. My gay and beautiful canoe, well have you played your friendly part.
1881 S. R. Gardiner & J. B. Mullinger Introd. Study Eng. Hist. i. xi. 195 In the final struggle..England played her part well.
1891 Speaker 11 July 36/2 The Referendum and the Initiative..have a great part to play in the future of Switzerland.
1917 A. Conan Doyle His Last Bow viii. 292 It's enough to make a man bughouse when he has to play a part from morning to night.
1930 Economist 24 May 1159/2 He not only played his part in shaping the organisation, but he also did what might be termed important field work for it.
1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 122 Mud-feeding animals play a significant part in re-working the sediment.
2001 J. O'Brien At Home in Heart of Appalachia xiii. 222 Incensed at being labeled a hillbilly, he acted the part with a vengeance.
(b) to bear a part: (a) to take part, share, participate in; †(b) to play a part as an actor or actress (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)] > participate
common1357
to take partc1384
communea1393
participe1511
participate1531
join1560
share1570
to bear a part1596
intercommon1626
to join in1785
to be in it1819
to stand in1858
to get into (also in on) the act1947
(to be) in on the act1951
to muck in1952
to opt in1966
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. A4v Bearest thou a part in this conspiracy? View more context for this quotation
?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads Anagram sig. A4v No spirit in our blood, But in our soules discourses beares a part.
1659 W. Montagu Shepheard's Paradise v. 153 I should be glad to see Genorio's looks tuned to bear a part in this generall harmony.
1679 ‘Ephelia’ Female Poems 86 In every Joy of mine, Thou shalt have share, And I will bear a part in all thy Care.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses i. 9 John Bull's Mother..bears a part in the following Transactions.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. ix. 186 The king himself..bore a part in it.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xii. 312 I say the sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the tregetour's mummery.
1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn II. lxxi. 287 If he have any softness of heart, it will be necessary to him that love should bear a part in all these interests.
1900 Overland Monthly Sept. 268/2 California..will bear a part in modern affairs that will make the glory of to-day seem insignificant.
1994 Newsday (Nexis) 1 July a8 The creator of a media circus has forfeited all complaint about invasions of his privacy, embarrassing as they might properly be for the reflections of those whose job it was to bear a part in them.
(c) to look (also dress) the part: to have an appearance befitting a particular character, role, or function.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have specific appearance [verb] > have befitting appearance
to look (also dress) the part1853
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. xi. viii. 272 He was acting a part, and he dressed and looked it.
1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down i. 10 Charles seemed not to realize the sacred duty of dressing the part.
1987 Amer. Survival Guide Aug. 24/3 Most are passed off to look the part but are flawed either in design or steel temper.
2000 R. Barger et al. Hell's Angel iii. 26 As a street tough, I looked the part.
P4. With parcel.
a. part or (also nor) parcel: a portion, division, or share of a whole. In later use chiefly in negative contexts. Cf. senses 3a and 10a, and parcel n. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > essential
part or (also nor) parcel1451
part and parcel1463
hardcore1916
1451 Rolls of Parl. V. 222/1 Discharge..for any Dysmes, or any part or parcell of any Dysmes, or other Quoote..to be born or paied by the Abbot.
1535–6 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 11 Vnited,..to and with the countie of Hereford, as a member, part, or parcell of the same.
1539 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 13 All such Right [or] Title..to the premisses, or to any part or parcell therof.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 64 Neuer a part or parcel thereof left vndiscouered.
1631 Patent Connecticut in R. R. Hinman Lett. Eng. Kings (1836) 14 The said Robert, Earle of Warwick..doth give..all that part of New England..excepting..the fift part of all gold and silver oare, that shall be found within the said premises, or any part or parcel therof.
1664 Compleat Clark 6 As often as it shall happen the said annuity of a hundred pounds or any part or parcell thereof to be behind and unpaid.
1711 Boston News-let. 1 Oct. 2/2 Sundry Cornelian and Aggat Stones put for Signets. Whoever will..give any true Intelligence of them, or any part or parcel of them,..shall be rewarded to content.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xv. 84 At any other country seat, castle, hall, mansion-house, messuage, or grainge-house,..or upon any part or parcel thereof.
1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iv. 126 The Protestants alone have no part or parcel in the sacred inheritance.
1957 N. Marsh Off with his Head ii. 43 'Tis men's work, and no female shall have part nor passel in it.
1972 J. Johnston Captains & Kings 134 I wanted neither part nor parcel of his problems.
1996 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 27 Apr. (Sport section) c3 Since merchandising is neither part nor parcel of the selection process, I go with Big Frank.
b. part and parcel.
(a) An integral part of a larger whole. Cf. sense 3c, and parcel n. 2b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > essential
part or (also nor) parcel1451
part and parcel1463
hardcore1916
1463 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1912) L. 41 (MED) The Newark now late edified by the saide Dame Agnes..for thenlargyng of the Prysone of Ludgate..be hadde, repute, and takene as a parte and parcell of the saide prysone of Ludgate.
1535–6 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 11 This present Act, and euery part and parcel therof, shall extend [etc.].
1535–6 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 26 The..Lordships..to be part and parcell of the same hundred [of Wesebery].
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. (1647) 100 [To] suffer the same and every part and parcell thereof to descend come and remaine according to the true meaning of this Indenture.
1664 Compleat Clark 795 The said Capital Messuage, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and Premisses, and every part and parcel thereof.
1783 Pennsylvania Gaz. 27 Aug. The said Persifor Frazer, and his heirs, now do stand..seized of the said premises, and of every part and parcel thereof.
1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 106 This being part and parcel of my present subject.
1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith v. i. §2. 272 The moral law of the conscience is part and parcel of man himself.
1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. II 210 He may say what he loikes; but he's part-an'-parcel o' th' same lot.
1951 R. Harling Paper Palace (1952) 287 Assault and robbery, cattle-driving and train-wrecking were part and parcel of his terrorising tactics.
1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) i. 43 The religion we have is from childhood. It is part and parcel of our life.
2002 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 8 Dec. 105 Within a lifetime, man had landed on the moon and air travel became part and parcel of modern life.
(b) As adv.: comprehensively; as an essential part; inextricably, inescapably.
ΚΠ
1988 L. Erdrich Tracks vii. 179 Part and parcel, she moved to town.
1994 T. Boswell Cracking Show iv. i. 67 It comes part and parcel with the great stuff-average control curse.
2002 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 13 Oct. 7 The way life works things come ‘part and parcel’. You do not get to select the bits you like.

Compounds

partbook n. a book containing one part (or a number of parts arranged separately) of a harmonized musical composition (cf. sense 13).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book > songbook
songbook1473
singing book1580
songster1739
partbook1864
1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 4) 278 A complete set of part-books of Handel's ‘Joshua’.
1952 Shakespeare Q. 3 172/2 An analysis of Irvin's part-book for his 1875 production of the play.
2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 Feb. (section E) i. 8/1 This English vocal ensemble, founded in London in 1992, prefers to perform clustered around a single partbook.
part music n. music (esp. for voices) written in parts.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > music in parts
symphony1599
part music1869
1869 N. Sands Philos. Teaching 44 Nearly all persons can be trained to sing part-music pleasantly and intelligently.
2002 Nelson Mail (N.Z.) (Nexis) 12 June 15 The 25-member choir sings a variety of part music, from Negro spirituals to madrigals.
part playing n. the playing of music in parts.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > [noun] > playing in parts
part playing1909
1909 C. H. H. Parry Johann Sebastian Bach 117 Then he passes on to part playing, which is provided for in two arrangements of chorales, adorned with the usual ornaments of the day.
2002 Canberra Times (Nexis) 21 May ix His part playing was admirably clear; his tempi were sensible; his dynamics..admirable and varied.
part publication n. the publication of a work in separate parts.
ΚΠ
1899 Daily News 2 Nov. 6/3 Once the craze was all for issuing volumes in parts; to-day part publication is almost unknown.
1998 K. T. Hoppen Mid-Victorian Generation 383 The characteristic mid-Victorian three-volume novel..stood at the top of a complex and variegated pyramid consisting of part publication (weekly or monthly in paper covers), serialization in weekly or monthly periodicals, [etc.].
part score n. Bridge a score of fewer than the required points for a game.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > scores or points
penalty1904
point1910
point count1914
match point1921
part score1932
swing1945
victory point1962
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > contract or declaration
declaration1895
make1902
contract1908
part score1932
1932 Official Syst. Contract Bridge 187 (heading) Bidding against a side which has a part score.
2002 Guardian (Nexis) 30 Nov. 22 Our side might never get into the auction and despite partner's failure to open, the hand could be ours for a part score or even a game.
part-singing n. singing in parts.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > singing in parts
descant?c1430
descantinga1538
part-singing1844
1844 H. F. Chorley Music & Manners France & Germany III. 227 After that colossally grand part-singing.
1937 W. H. Auden in W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland xi. 147 The sport-fest was a primitive affair. Some part singing..and a swimming race.
1999 Cathedral Music Apr. 6/3 Terry..strongly favoured unaccompanied part-singing and believed that every singer had to be able to sing accurately and confidently at sight.
part-whole adj. of, relating to, or involving the relationship of a part or parts to a whole.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adjective] > relationship of part to whole
part-whole1905
1905 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 2 331 The forms of association studied are: genus–species, species–genus, between coordinates, part–whole, whole–part, [etc.].
1992 Mind 101 139 I urge that all logical entailments should ultimately be explained in terms of part-whole relations on universals.
part-writing n. the composition of music in parts; the combination of parts in musical composition.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > [noun] > composition of part music
descant?c1430
descantinga1538
part-writing1865
harmonization1880
voice leading1899
1865 tr. L. Spohr Autobiogr. (1969) I. 301 The part-writing and modulation were very monotonous.
1916 P. Grainger Let. 28 Aug. in All-round Man (1994) 34 I think my special style, if I have any, arises out of having a craze for part-writing.
1999 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 48/1 Ingenious part-writing using unorthodox combinations of instruments.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

partn.2

Brit. /pɑːt/, U.S. /pɑrt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: part v.
Etymology: < part v. Compare earlier parting n. 7b.As an unrelated use taken to be from the verb, N.E.D. (1904) s.v. part sb. has a sense ‘parting, separation, leave-taking’, illustrated by a quotation showing the collocation cruel part which is probably instead to be taken as showing part n.1 10b.
Chiefly North American. A line produced by parting the hair; = parting n. 7b. Cf. part v. 8c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > parting > [noun]
cleftc1325
shedc1325
shodingc1440
seam1585
part1864
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > parts of the hair or head relating to hairdressing > [noun] > parting
shodec1000
cleftc1325
shedc1325
shodingc1440
seam1585
parting1699
part1864
1864 M. T. Walworth Hotspur i. 7 The ripples of gold she cannot straighten out, as they commence at the part of her hair, and assert their rights even to the very end of the luxuriant mass.
1871 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy Aug. 284/1 He..brushed his hair with elaborate care,..accomplishing an accurate ‘part’ behind.
1895 Cent. Mag. Aug. 489/1 His straight, smooth hair, with its definite part.
1933 J. Steinbeck To God Unknown (1935) viii. 61 He raked a nervous hand through his hair and destroyed the careful part.
1970 Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 19/2 (advt.) Balding! So you moved your part down over your ear.
1996 E. Lovelace Salt viii. 151 [He is] so polite and soft spoken and with a part in his hair.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† partadj.1

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English part , part v.
Etymology: < part, past participle of part v. (see forms at that entry.). Compare parted adj.1 and discussion at that entry.
Heraldry. Obsolete.
Divided into parts; impaled. Chiefly in part per pale: (a) = party per pale at party adj. 2a; (b) (as n.) a shield that is party per pale. Cf. parted adj.1 2.
ΘΚΠ
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 MS Harl. 2169 f. 5 (caption) Babyloyne part wt the chaleys.
1665 R. Monsey Scarronides 88 His Armes a hundred stinging boches, Painted on Shields, as ours on Coaches; Draggons, and Serpents part per pale.
1708 Brit. Apollo 18–20 Feb. He, that selleth Ale, Hangs out a Chequer'd Part per Pale. Part per Pale sells Ale and Beer.
1863 H. W. Longfellow Prelude vii, in Tales Wayside Inn 6 A Wyvern part-per-pale addressed Upon a helmet barred.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

partadj.2adv.

Brit. /pɑːt/, U.S. /pɑrt/
Forms: see part n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: part n.1
Etymology: < part n.1 Compare parcel adv., parcel adj.
When preceding a single noun, verb, adjective, or participle, the word takes on the characteristics of a prefix, and is commonly hyphenated. However, it is frequently used more than once in a sentence, forming a kind of correlative construction.
A. adj.2
Partial; that is (something) in part but not in full.In certain compounds often with the sense ‘part of’ (cf. part-time adj. and adv., part-way adv., etc.).Recorded earliest in part payment n. at Compounds.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adjective]
portionala1382
particulara1387
partial?a1425
part1496
molecular1877
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 279 Item,..in part payment of theking of the chapell..with spule, iiij li. xij d.
1620 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1942) I. 179 And upone the ressait thairof in all or in pairt acquittance and discharge.
1807 T. Smith Ess. Theory Money & Exchange 107 Where the Medium is part Coins, and part Paper Money, it may occur, that these Coins become of such value as to bear a premium.
1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics i. 1 An excursion of part business, part pleasure.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xiv. §119. 404 A part-cause of the transformation of the Earth's crust.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 29 Jan. 1/2 The part-authors, and part-condoners, of the horrors in the Armenian provinces.
1901 H. H. Joachim Study Ethics of Spinoza 169 In our ignorance we attribute these qualities of sensation directly to the external bodies, which are at most their part-causes.
1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 414/2 After the outbreak of war..he took to production and was part-producer of some of the best British war films.
1983 Listener 6 Jan. 13/1 These four points that I have been making—about object-directedness, about part-objects versus whole objects..—are all points about the structure of the mind.
2000 Sunday Times 23 July (Style section) 17/2 If you think a pink mink dress is puke-making, imagine how much worse it is when a dress is part-mink, part-wool.
B. adv. Partly.
1. Modifying a phrase.
ΘΚΠ
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
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > somewhat
somedealc725
halfc1175
somewhatc1175
somethingc1275
little whatc1384
somedeallyc1400
measurablec1420
somewhatlyc1450
somewisec1450
somepartc1485
parta1500
something1548
rather1573
some1575
rathera1684
sunket1686
somethingisha1726
measurably1756
rather1770
rather1772
somec1780
sumthin1786
wee1816
sumfin1852
sumptin1852
measuredly1860
sumpin1889
part-way1954
ish1986
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adverb]
a-party1340
somewhat…somewhat1390
partily1497
parta1500
partly1523
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ii. l. 836 Oþir incedence seyr Accordande part to þis matere.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 59/1 The king..made her [sc. his mother] answer part in ernest part in play.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. ii. E His fete were parte off yron, and parte of earth.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 422 Tha declair the truth..parte with rasounis, parte with authorities of the Scriptures.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (2 Tim. i. 12) The ship that is part in the water, and part in the mud.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. ii. 37 This I delivered part in Words, and part in Signs.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘It rains part’, it rains a little.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Grandmother viii A lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
1922 J. Inkster Mansie's Röd 105 Pairt atween lambs, kye's suppers, grice an' hens, I tink I hed me haands foo.
1936 Musical Q. 22 14 That peculiarly Schoenbergian concept—part abstract theory and part pure inspiration—the ‘row’.
1994 Peace Mag. May 18/2 The ability to pay part in cash and part in green dollars for goods or services.
2. Modifying a verb.
ΚΠ
1581–2 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 229 To caus mak..ane pres..and to pairt furneis all necessaris thairto.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 208 To th' end each creature might..Part-sympathize with his owne Element.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 302 This wretch hath part confest his villainy. View more context for this quotation
1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 2 Waving Groves..part admit and part exclude the Day.
1968 Economist 1 June 75/1 Big tanker operators will either have to lose money by not carrying full cargoes, or follow Shell's example of part-unloading them.
1986 Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 8/6 Robert MacNeil, who presented and part-wrote the series, conducted us on a final tour of former outposts of Empire.
2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xiii. 139 He part-owns a nightclub out in Essex.
3. Modifying an adjective or participle.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. iii. 60 On..who (halfe thorough) Giues o're, and leaues his part-created cost, A naked subiect to the weeping clowdes.
1832 W. Motherwell Poems (1847) 266 I watched those cold part-opened lips.
1891 Mail 14 Dec. 3/6 A part-heard case of alleged dealing in bogus cheques.
1925 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn 209 She [sc. a barque] was part-painted and..by the cut of her, British.
1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 19 Jan. 24/3 A part-comic, part-tragic and occasionally vicious sendup of the movie world and its self-destructive and self-important icons.
2000 N.Y. Times 30 Dec. a1/3 Frankfurt..is comfortable being a part-Muslim city with 27 discreet mosques.

Compounds

part-bred adj. (of a horse) having an unspecified but authenticated proportion of pure-bred stock in its ancestry.
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1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §1282 A three-part-bred mare.]
1938 Anglo-Arab & Part-Bred Arab Reg. 4 i. 5 It was further decided to substitute the term part-bred Arab for Arab-bred, because the latter definition was considered unsuitable and confusing. It was often incorrectly thought that Arab-bred was synonymous with pure Arab stock.
2002 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 6 Dec. Judy White, Pauline Morris and Christine Yeoman collected awards with their part-bred Arab.
part load n. a load that is carried as part of a larger load.
ΚΠ
1964 Oxf. Econ. Papers 16 282 A large firm will carry part loads..at a lower rate than for full loads because it has other part loads..with which to combine them.
2002 Contract Jrnl. (Nexis) 10 July 16 We are now able to offer fixed prices for our products and measure efficiency and waste, while loads arrive on time and delivery of part loads can now be avoided.
part-mine n. now rare pig iron made partly from native ore.
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1893 Daily News 20 Nov. 2/6 Staffordshire part-mines are 45s 6d to 46s 6d and 47s, according to mixture; common, 35s to 36s; and all mine hot-blast forge iron, 60s to 62s 6d.
1900 Daily News 24 Oct. 2/4 Pig iron sells slowly at..65s. for part-mine, 62s. 6d. to 70s. for all-mine.
part pay n. a part of one's pay, a portion of the full or usual wages or salary; spec. the payment made to whalers before the start of a voyage.
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1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxxiv. 408 There were instances of men in the Neversink receiving money in part pay for work done for private individuals.
1993 Brit. Med. Jrnl. (BNC) 9 Jan. 131 The airline retained scarce skills by allowing people to work elsewhere on part pay but having the opportunity to recall them at a month's notice.
part payment n. payment in part.
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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
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 279 Item,..in part payment of theking of the chapell..with spule, iiij li. xij d.
1502 Acct. in Lib. Cart. S. Crucis (1840) lvi To Walter Merlioun, mason, in part payment of his task of the foirwerk and the new hall in Halyrudhous.
1664 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 84 Which sowme was geawin..in part payment of the money cravit..for cess.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. lxxii. 17 Lord Kencarth visited the stable to purchase a hunter which had been sold by Lady Emily Delvin, in part payment of Lord Linbourne's debt.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 238 It was part payment only, payment in full was still to come.
1934 Econ. Hist. Rev. 5 94 In view of sudden price changes they preferred part-payment of labourers through the parish rather than risk an undisguised rise in wages.
2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) x. 214 I'd acquired the picture in part payment from a mid-town cheese I chased some money for.
part performance n. Law (a) partial performance of a contract, promise, or obligation; an instance of this; (b) the principle which provides that oral contracts may be enforceable in situations where the contract has been accepted and partially enacted or fulfilled.
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1721 Bunbury vs. Bolton: Respondents Case 3 Receiv'd from the Respondent Alderman Bolton upwards of 500 l. in Part Performance of the said Decree.
1768 J. T. Atkyns Rep. Cases Chancery 3 Table of Principal Matters sig. 9Y2 Delivery of possession, or payment of money, is a part performance of an agreement not reduced into writing.
1814 Morning Post 29 Jan. Mr. Phillimore..relied chiefly on the principle of part performance, contending that even if there was no written agreement the part performance would have taken it out of the statute.
1883 Central Law Jrnl. 16 Mar. 207/2 There had therefore been no voluntary acceptance of the part performance.
1932 J. Williams Statute Frauds iii. vii. 249 There was sufficient part performance to take the case out of the statute.
2016 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 17 Feb. The doctrine of part performance is available to retain the possession.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

partv.

Brit. /pɑːt/, U.S. /pɑrt/
Forms: Middle English paarte, Middle English parde (past participle), Middle English parti, Middle English parttyd (past participle), Middle English party, Middle English partye, Middle English pert, Middle English perte, Middle English perty, Middle English (1700s–1800s archaic) part (past participle), Middle English–1600s parte, Middle English– part; Scottish pre-1700 pairte, pre-1700 parte, pre-1700 per, pre-1700 1700s– pairt, pre-1700 1700s– part, pre-1700 (1800s (Orkney)) pert, 1800s parth.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French partir; Latin partīre.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman partir, partier, parter and Old French, Middle French, French partir to divide, to divide or share into several pieces (end of the 10th cent.), to share in, partake of (10th cent.; also partir a , partir de ), to leave (12th cent.; also partir de ), to separate (two people or things) (12th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin partīre (also partīrī ) to part, divide, distribute, share, in post-classical Latin also (as partiri ) to depart (1274, 1419 in British sources) < part- , pars (alternative stem parti- ) part n.1 Compare Old Occitan, Occitan partir (c1070), Catalan partir (c1200), Spanish partir (950), Italian partire (12th cent.).With sense 14 perhaps compare French couper du vin (Middle French couper, 15th cent. in sense ‘to weaken (a liquid) by mixing it with another’).In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle are attested (see y- prefix).
I. Senses relating to separation, disjunction, etc.
1. To go away from a person, take one's leave; to separate from. Also figurative.
a. intransitive. With from.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 54 Wenne he partet [a1250 Titus partes; c1230 Corpus parteð] from ou.
c1300 St. Clement (Harl.) 312 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 525 (MED) Þe breþeren tueye..hadde mid him ibeo & iparted fram him beye.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 13033 Herodias..wend to part fra king herod.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 492 The hwnd hym lufit swa, That he vald part na vis hym fra.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xvi. 60 Farewell she sayde for I must parte you fro.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iv. 95 This Ring I gaue him, when he parted from me. View more context for this quotation
1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy v. v. sig. N3 I hold my weary soule, in my teeth, 'Tis ready to part from me.
1662 Duchess of Newcastle Matrimonial Trouble i. i. i, in Playes Written 423 O how it wounds my heart to part from you!
1727 C. Colden Hist. Five Indian Nations 3 This extremity obliged the Adirondacks to part from those of the Five Nations.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. ix. 87 The ladies seemed very unwilling to part from my daughters.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. 365 Our poor boy Thornie parted from us to-day.
1879 T. Hardy in New Q. Rev. New Ser. 1 371 The other officers agreed heartily to this course; and, thanking Stockdale..they parted from him at the Cross.
1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent v. 139 The two men had parted from each other within a hundred yards from the Observatory walls.
1981 S. Chitty Gwen John iii. 44 He remembered parting from her at the college at the end of term soirée.
2002 Daily Mail (Nexis) 9 Dec. Sebastian Coe had parted from his wife Nicola.
b. intransitive. With with.
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1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. Lv When I parted with thy brother in Pierce Penilesse, I left him to be tormented world without ende of our Poets and writers about London.
1605 S. Rowley When you see Me H1v The Cardinall I troe, has parted with the Emperour.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 218 How parted he with thee? View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xiii. 14) 114 Abram had now parted with Lot, to his great grief.
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife v. i. 90 No, I never part with a Gallant, till I've try'd him.
1719 Boston News-let. 19 Jan. 1/2 I must not part with you without rendering you just thanks for your ready compliance with my Proposition of giving Rewards for Suppressing Pirates.
1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. i. v. 40 Pray do not go; I see you so seldom..that I can not part with you so soon.
1801 S. Owenson Poems 51 With you to live I fondly thought, with you to die; Nor ev'n with life, to part with you.
1871 M. Arnold Friendship's Garland 97 Just after I had parted with him at his lodgings.
1903 H. James Ambassadors x. xxviii. 373 I must positively—though she quite cast me off—see her again. I can't part with her that way.
1993 N.Y. Times 24 Mar. a12/4 The 10th adult to part with the sect's leader, David Koresh, in the last five days.
2.
a. intransitive. To depart, go away (from a place); to leave, set out. Also with †away. Also figurative.In perfect tenses, formerly with be: ‘he is parted from Rome’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)]
to come awayeOE
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
awayOE
dealc1000
goOE
awendOE
rimeOE
to go one's wayOE
flitc1175
depart?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
to turn awaya1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
recede1450
roomc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
avaunt1549
trudge1562
vade?1570
discoast1571
leave1593
wag1594
to go off1600
troop1600
hence1614
to set on one's foota1616
to pull up one's stumps1647
quit1811
to clear out1816
slope1830
to walk one's chalks1835
shove1844
to roll out1850
to pull out1855
to light out1859
to take a run-out powder1909
to push off (also along)1923
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > set out
forthfarec888
foundOE
seta1000
to go forthOE
to fare forthc1200
partc1230
to pass forthc1325
to take (the) gatec1330
to take the wayc1330
to take one's waya1375
puta1382
treunt?a1400
movec1400
depart1490
prepare?1518
to set forth1530
to set forward(s)1530
busklea1535
to make out1558
to take forth1568
to set out1583
sally1590
start1591
to go off1600
to put forth1604
to start outa1626
intend1646
to take the road1720
to take one's foot in one's hand1755
to set off1774
to get off1778
to set away1817
to take out1855
to haul out1866
to hit the trail (less commonly the grit, pike, road, etc.)1873
to hit, split or take the breeze1910
hop1922
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Seggeð. ear þen he parti mea culpa.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2962 (MED) Hwan he wore parted alle samen, Hauelok bi-lefte wit ioie and gamen In engelond.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Mark i. 42 Anoon the lepre partide [v.r. wente; L. discessit] awey fro hym.
c1390 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 649 Vengeance shal nat parten from his hous That of hise othes is to outrageous.
c1400 ( Canticum Creatione l. 676 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 132 (MED) Parte awey out of oure siȝt.
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) iv. 20 Who moued you to leue me, and to parte soo?
a1500 Consail & Teiching Vys Man (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 67 That quhay-sa-euir be taynt with It [sc. lesing], It smytis sa sare It partis neuir.
1565 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1900) II. 149 [Murray] partith to the court this Twisday.
1576 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 121 And wtin ane schort space yaj pairtit all away.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 71 But now he parted hence to embarque for Millain. View more context for this quotation
1622 J. Borough Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 129 Mr. Norgate is parted from Rome..for England.
a1644 B. Twyne in A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 58 They desisted & parted awaye quietly.
1676 London Gaz. No. 1151/2 The Queen of Poland was parted from Janowits, to go and meet the King at Leopol.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 46 I parted from Vienna the middle of May.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. vi. 142 Aged and poor He parted thence.
1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche vi. xxiii. 75 ‘But ere he parted’ said she, ‘he conferred On thee the irrecoverable boon.’
1979 Southern Star (County Cork, Ireland) 29 Sept. 22/2 He subsequently linked up with Sean Murphy and they brought the ball deep into the Canovee defence before Murphy parted to substitute Niall Downs.
1993 A. Goodman Tell them I'm on my Way (BNC) 239 I parted with a feeling that it would be a long time before I earned her forgiveness.
b. intransitive. Frequently with hence, out of this life, etc.: to die. Cf. depart v. 7. Now rare and formal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) 422 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 287 Er he partede of thisse live.
c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) 297 (MED) Whan þeih sholen parten [v.r. perty] henne.
c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) v. 694 (MED) We shall parte oute of this woofull lyffe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. iii. 12 A [= he] parted eu'n iust betweene Twelue and One. View more context for this quotation
1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xxii, in Wks. I. 774 At sixe moneths end, shee parted hence.
a1642 J. Suckling Legenda Aurea (1646) 23 Future Times Shall not account unto the Age's crimes Dearth of pure wit: since the great Lord of it (Donne) parted hence.
1702 M. Mollineux Fruits of Retirement 118 We must..bear the Cross, (if we would wear the Crown) And fully follow him: The Recompence Will far exceed, when we are parted hence.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iii. 50 An angel sent from pitying heaven To bid him part in peace.
1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 14 I know it well and yet in peace I part.
2002 Ventura County News (Calif.) (Nexis) 7 June b7 Doyel W. Brown, 80.., parted from this life at his home on June 4, 2002.
c. transitive. To depart from, go away from, leave; to quit, abandon, forsake. Cf. depart v. 8. Now rare and formal.In quot. 1610 apparently a mixture of ‘had parted this life’ and ‘had been parted from this life’. Cf. pass v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
roomc1400
wagc1400
departa1425
refusea1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
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part1496
refrain1534
to turn the backc1540
quita1568
apart1574
shrink1594
to fall from ——1600
to draw away1616
to go off ——a1630
shifta1642
untenant1795
evacuate1809
exit1830
stash1888
split1956
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart from or leave [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
to pass out ofa1398
roomc1400
departa1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
part1496
quita1568
shrink1594
shifta1642
to turn out of ——1656
refraina1723
blow1902
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)] > part from
twinc1386
part1496
to depart with1502
to fall from ——1600
1496 Epit. Iaspar Late Duke of Beddeforde (Pynson) sig. aiiv But or I parte the place Vp his hede he caste.
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 21 That I should part my countrey, to auoide My monstrous charge.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. i. 3 Since presently your soules must part your bodies. View more context for this quotation
1610 Bible (Douay) II. 2 Macc. v. 5 As though Antiochus had bene parted this life.
1638 Earl of Rothes Affairs Kirk Scotl. (1830) 31 For chargeing them to pairt the toun.
1784 H. Wilson in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc. (1918) 74 I imbrase the earliest leasure time since I parted My Dear Nephew & Niece—to tell their Parants [etc.].
1787 Minor iv. vi. 222 My regret at parting this second Eden.
1812 Examiner 14 Sept. 588/1 One of the transports,..having parted the convoy, was captured.
1827 in W. Motherwell Minstrelsy 187 It's time the Dead should part the Quick—Marjorie, I must be gone.
1917 E. Wharton Summer xvi. 249 The young woman who had been lolling against the table suddenly parted the group, and stood in front of Charity.
2002 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch (Nexis) 7 Aug. 7 c Elaine Marie Matthews, age 55, parted this life on August 3.
3. intransitive. Of two or more people or things: to go or come apart; to separate; esp. (of persons) to go away from each other, quit one another's company.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > part or go away in different directions
dealc1000
shedc1000
twin?c1225
departc1290
to-go13..
parta1325
severc1375
disseverc1386
to part companya1400
discontinue1576
to fall apart1599
flya1677
separate1794
dispart1804
split1843
a1325 St. Julian Hospitaller (Corpus Cambr.) 74 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 34 Ȝif Crist wole, wile we beþ aliue, we ne ssolleþ neuere parti [c1300 Laud departi] ato.
c1390 G. Chaucer Cook's Tale 4362 Er we parte..thow shalt be quyt.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2473 (MED) Þay acolen & kyssen..& parten ryȝt þere.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 57 Þare þare it [sc. the Sea of Galilee] and Iordan partes es a grete brigg.
?1463 R. Cutler in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 260 Qwan we partyt at Norwyche..ȝe seyd on-to me ȝe wold somqat do be my sympyl a-wyse.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 1267 (MED) Ofte they kist or they wold part A sonder.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 572 Thus partit thay twa.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. i. sig. Z5 So both tooke goodly leaue, and parted seuerall. View more context for this quotation
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 18 A tale..Would..Make..Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular haire to stand on end.
1648 R. Crashaw Delights Muses (ed. 2) 9 And when Lifes sweet fable ends, Soule and body part like friends.
1725 J. Gay Black-eyed Susan iv We only part to meet again.
a1732 J. Gay Hare & Friends 61 But dearest friends, alas! must part.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. xviii. 10 Her lips grew pale, Parted, and quivered.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Edwin Morris 70 We met to part no more.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 392 I give my guides buttons, reels of cotton,..fish-hooks, and matches, and we part friends.
1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 6 Oct. (1993) III. 10 She gave a little half curtsey when we parted.
1958 L. Uris Exodus iii. iii. 354 In reflex his lips parted for an instant but he stopped the words that would have asked how his brother was.
1985 B. Neil As we Forgive ii. 13 Do you remember the day we parted at Coalbarn, how I shouted after you?
2002 D. Danvers Watch viii. 109 We part at the corner as I turn south toward the river.
4.
a. transitive. To put apart, make a separation between (two or more persons or things); to bring about, effect a separation of (a thing) from another. Also figurative: to distinguish in the mind as a separate class or category.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)]
to-twemec893
sunderOE
asunderOE
shedOE
dealOE
shill1049
skillc1175
to-twinc1175
twinc1230
disseverc1250
depart1297
slita1300
to-throwc1315
parta1325
drevec1325
devisec1330
dividec1374
sever1382
unknit?a1425
divorce1430
separea1450
separate?a1475
untine1496
to put apart1530
discussa1542
deceper1547
disseparate1550
apart1563
unjoint1565
shoal1571
divisionatea1586
single1587
dispart1590
descide1598
disassociate1598
distract1600
dissolve1605
discriminate1615
dissociate1623
discerpa1628
discind1640
dissunder1642
distinguish1648
severize1649
unstring1674
skaila1833
cleave1873
dirempt1885
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (intransitive)]
to-dealeOE
to-goc1000
parta1325
to-shedc1330
departa1387
severc1407
divide1526
dispart1633
split1712
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 679 He wole þanne party a-two þe goede ffro þe vuele.
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 73 (MED) Eche hordom ne parteþ nauȝt Þe mani [read man] al fram hys wyf.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 390 To parte þe day fro þe nyȝt.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 2295 The kyng of kynggez partyd them twayn.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 11062 Stithly þai start vp, strekyn to-gedur Tyll the prese of the pepull partid hom sonder.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. ii. 7 How canst thou part sadnes and melancholy? View more context for this quotation
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 255 Part them, they are incenst. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Luke xxiv. 51 While he blessed them, hee was parted from them, and caried vp into heauen. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xxxix. 43 A foole and his money is soon parted.
1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 81 They seized each other's hair with their forefeet, and down they went to the Sod, their Vrows and Families crying out because they could not part them.
1758 R. Brown Compl. Farmer (1760) ii. 87 [Horse-beans and tares] are easily parted with a riddle.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Isabel in Poems 7 To part Error from crime.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. iii. 62 The women shrieked to their lovers to part the combatants.
1883 M. Oliphant Hester I. x. 157 I'm not frightened of a mother-in-law as so many fellows are... I shouldn't wish to part you more than for the honeymoon, you know.
1954 ‘W. March’ Bad Seed i. 11 She smiled again, but very softly, an odd, hesitant smile that parted her lips.
1987 A. Tutuola Pauper, Brawler & Slanderer ix. 36 Instead of parting the two fighters, she stood aloof.
1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 92 Demeter parted the double doors of the drawing-room, bearing a teatray.
b. In technical uses.
(a) transitive. Metallurgy. To separate (gold and silver) from each other, esp. by means of an acid; to separate (gold) from silver, or vice versa, in this way.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > separate gold or silver from each other
part1489
1489 Act 4 Henry VII c. ii, in Statutes of Realm (1816) II. 526/1 Of old tyme..ther was..fynours and parters..to fyne and parte all Gold and Sylver..for thademendment of moneyes and plate in the realme.
1791 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 81 362 A striking example..is afforded by the operation of quartation, in which process, the silver being parted, the gold is left of the colour of copper.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 766 The gold and silver to be parted ought previously to be granulated.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1061 The one space..is allotted to the processes of dissolving the silver, and parting the gold.
1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) xv. 291 The resulting rich bullion is then ‘parted’ to obtain gold and silver.
1973 J. Bronowski Ascent of Man (1976) iv. 136 That indeed is how the emperor's goldsmiths assayed or, as they would have said, parted it, by an acid treatment that was less laborious than cupellation.
2001 Isis 92 383/1 To part silver from gold, the Lydians relied on cementation (chemical reactions carried out between initially solid materials).
(b) transitive. Papermaking. To separate (damp sheets of paper) after pressing.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > paper-making > make paper [verb (transitive)] > specific processes
planish1361
calender1513
couch1751
watermarkc1800
part1809
satin1839
re-reel1860
to break in1865
hot press1875
tub-size1880
reslush1938
1809 J. Baxter Conc. & Interesting View of Nature of Paper-making 23 The paper is next taken, after being parted and pressed several times, to the loft.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 927 Fine papers are often twice parted and pressed.
1952 F. H. Norris Paper & Paper Making ix. 116 The resultant solid packs are parted very carefully and laid out.
†(c) transitive. To cut (a pair of combs, or their teeth) from one piece of material so that the teeth of each correspond to the spaces between the teeth of the other. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 905 The teeth of the larger descriptions of comb are parted, or cut one out of the other with a thin frame saw; then the shell, equal in size to two combs with their teeth interlaced, is bent like an arch in the direction of the length of the teeth... Smaller combs of horn and tortoise-shell are parted whilst flat.
(d) transitive. Turning. To separate off (a piece of wood or metal) from a longer length.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > cut or cleave
rive1440
slit1522
part1923
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 71/2 Tools..chiefly for ‘parting’, or cutting off pieces of work from the main cylinder or log.]
1923 C. M. Linley Lathe Users' Handbk. vii. 118 In bar work, as each piece is finished, it is parted off.
1948 L. H. Sparey Amateur's Lathe x. 126/1 When work of large diameter must be parted-off, it is not advisable to make the part in one cut.
1958 C. T. Bower Aids to Workshop Pract. viii. 94 The parting-off tool shown..has been designed for use on a 3½-in. centre lathe to enable work gripped in the chuck to be parted off without jamming.
1991 Woodworking Jan. 67/1 Part off the lid by completing the parting groove immediately adjacent to the first skew groove.
†c. intransitive. To make or cause separation, division, or distinction. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate, come, or go apart [verb (intransitive)] > make or cause a separation
to make separation1413
departa1425
separate1560
part1611
sever1611
1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xviii. 18 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth betweene the mighty [ Coverdale parteth the mightie asunder] . View more context for this quotation
1750 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1887) XVII. 252 In a range with the Fence and Trees which parts between John Richardson Esqrs. Land..and Samuel Wells Esqrs. Land.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xlvii. 70 Her care is not to part and prove. View more context for this quotation
5.
a. intransitive. With with.
(a) To let go, give up, surrender; to send away, dismiss. Also (of a body or substance): to lose, give off heat, a constituent element, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to miscellaneous other processes
reduce?a1425
weaken1540
projecta1550
brown1570
spiritualize1593
colliquate1603
redisperse1621
imbibe1626
educe1651
to cant off1658
part1663
regalize1664
dint1669
roche1679
subtilizea1722
neutralize1744
develop1756
evolve1772
extricate1790
separate1805
unburn1815
leach1860
methylate1864
nitrate1872
nitre1880
sweeten1885
deflocculate1909
hybridize1959
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 17022 (MED) Kynd na saul suffers ar to part wit [so a1400 Gött.; a1400 Trin. Cambr. parte fro; c1460 Laud parte fro] man o-liue.
a1425 N. Homily Legendary (Harl. suppl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 38 (MED) He dredes his gude sal fro him fall So þat he dar noght part with all.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 4382 (MED) He shal..al worldly þing leue behynde, And þerfore he shulde, or he went, Parte wiþ suche as God him sent.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 28 b The Dutches was driuen to part with one of her chiefe women.
a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iv. 411 Oh, that I should part with so much gold!
a1605 R. Birrel Diarey 60 in J. G. Dalyell Fragm. of Scotish Hist. (1798) Bot yai wer not directit to pairt wt: him, bot to fetche him bak againe.
1663 R. Boyle Exper. & Consid. Colours iii. xlix. Annot. ii Lixiviate salts..dispose them [sc. vegetables] to part readily with their tincture.
1693 R. Ames Bacchanalian Sessions 16 But I know and am sure, when men part with their Reason, Tho Nonsence they talk, yet they never think Treason.
1719 Free-thinker No. 92. 1 I would part with all my Jewels, to be but Twenty.
1732 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) I. 183 My Landlord, plague consume his fawning Tongue! Pled, 'till I parted with my Money.
1795 J. Hall-Stevenson Wks. I. 122 Of persons he was no respecter, He would have parted with them all For such an edifying lecture.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 327/1 Such substances as are known to contain oxygen in the greatest abundance, and to part with it with the greatest facility.
1854 M. L. Charlesworth Ministering Children 10 And so that ministering child parted with her nosegay for the little girl, who had never gathered any flower but a daisy.
1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) v. 131 Men will not part with what they have until you give them something better.
1950 ‘C. S. Forester’ Mr. Midshipman Hornblower 73 They would never part with prisoners on the representation of a merchant captain.
1990 J. McGahern Amongst Women 92 To go about with young women he needed money and Moran would not part with any.
2002 Stationary Engine Mag. July 9/3 Sadly the owner didn't want to part with it as it had a certain sentimental value.
†(b) Scottish. to part with child (also bairn, etc.): to give birth prematurely, to suffer miscarriage or abortion. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > be confined [verb (intransitive)] > give birth > complications of childbirth or pregnancy
to part with child (also bairn, etc.)a1525
a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 236 Qwene Mary partit with barne..xij oulkis befor hir tyme.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 61 The ȝeir following the quene pairtit witht bairne... The bairne was born quick and deceissit witht in schort space thairefter.
1629 in G. F. Black Examples Folk-lore Orkney & Shetland (1901) 109 [He] gared his wyff pairt with chyld.
1631 R. Bruce Centure in W. Cunningham Sermons (1843) 192 He asked at the Earl what would make a woman part with Child?
1703 G. Turnbull Diary (1893) 433 This same day Mrs. Glass fell unwell att my house, and in the night parted with child.
1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. iii. viii §7. 432 All which put her to such Fright that she parted with Child, and never recovered.
1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) ii. 13 Maggy had parted wi' bairn.
1861 A. F. Irvine Rep. High Court Justiciary 3 96 Causing yourself to abort, or part in an untimely manner with the foetus or child in your womb.
b. intransitive. With from. To let go, give up, relinquish. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 172 I giue them with this ring, which when you part from, loose, or giue away, let it presage the ruine of your loue. View more context for this quotation
1639 H. Glapthorne Trag. Albertus Wallenstein iii. iii. sig. Fi That jewell which you seeme To part from so unwillingly.
1671 A. Behn Amorous Prince i. iii. 8 I vow 'tis the strangest thing in the world, A man must part from so much money as I have done.
1741 D. Garrick Lying Valet i. i. 7 That All of ours is of So little Consequence, that a Man, with a very small Share of Philosophy, may part from it without Much Pain or Uneasiness.
1793 Minstrel III. 30 Grasping the shadow of power, whilst their poverty constrained them to part from the substance.
1827 R. Cobbold Orig., Serious & Relig. Poetry (Reflection xvi.) 53 O merciful maker, May I be partaker, Of thy Heaven and part from it never.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. 166 His precious bag, which he would by no means part from.
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim iii. 20 He sighed with content, with regret as well at having to part from that serenity which fostered the adventurous freedom of his thoughts.
1937 G. Household Third Hour ii. 56 The gold had to be left where it was. He parted from it philosophically.
1992 UNIX Today! 17 Feb. 4/3 Other AS/400 users are less willing to consider parting from their AS/400s.
c. transitive. Scottish and Irish English. To give up, relinquish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > part with or let go
twinc1330
forbeara1400
twina1400
to depart withc1485
omit1531
to depart from1548
to leave hold1556
sunderc1600
impart1606
ungrasp1621
disfingera1652
shed1667
to leave go1776
unclutch1816
part1818
dispart with1820
1818 M. Hartnell Let. 28 Dec. in D. Palk Prisoners' Lett. Bank Eng. 1781–1827 (2007) 97 Sir I will be leaving My Country in the Course of six weeks both me and my Children Quiet distressed as I was Obliged to Part my Cloaths to support my Child.
1823 C. K. Sharpe Ballad Bk. 2 O we maun part this love, Willie.
1897 C. M. Campbell Deilie Jock 31 A' the plenishing o' the wee hoose had been parted to pay for the funeral.
1899 S. MacManus In Chimney Corners 73 (E.D.D.) He wouldn't part his wife Molly at home for all the princesses in the world.
1903 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ All on Irish Shore 5 The only reason I'm parting them is I'm giving up me drag and selling me stock, and going into partnership with a veterinary surgeon in Rugby.
1965 in Sc. National Dict. at Pairt [In Ulster] he wouldn't part a penny if a maik would do.
d. intransitive. colloquial. To give something away, esp. money; to pay up. Also (Australian and New Zealand) with up.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > make relinquishment [verb (intransitive)] > part with something
part1864
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)]
spenec1175
spend1297
to do or make (the) cost(s)c1325
costc1384
to be at charge or at charges?1542
to be at cost?1548
to spend and be spent1611
disburse1615
to lug out1684
tap1712
part1864
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 196 Part, to pay, restore, give up; ‘he's a right un, he is; I know he'd part.’.. The term is in general use in Sporting circles.
1889 Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Sept. 20/1 An' then they reckoned I'd been usin' 'em [sc. double-headed pennies in a game of two-up] all the time, and they made me part up.
1894 ‘J. S. Winter’ Red Coats 107 The master of Dorien was wily—what the country folk call ‘unwilling to part.’ At least, he would only part for a consideration.
1913 E. Wharton Custom of Country ii. xiv. 202 People said of him that he ‘didn't care to part’.
1946 F. Sargeson That Summer 152 Ted got more but of course there was his wife, and he had to part up.
1966 P. G. Wodehouse Plum Pie i. 17 Uncle Tom..had to foot the bills. He has the stuff in sackfuls, but he hates to part.
1970 J. Aiken Embroidered Sunset x. 209 ‘So where are all the old girl's pictures?’ ‘Scattered all over the village. Nobody will part; they are thought to be lucky.’
6. intransitive. Of a thing: to become or be separated or detached from; to proceed from. Also: to come away.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate, come, or go apart [verb (intransitive)] > become separated from something
strangec1380
parta1400
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 20755 (MED) Þan parted his hend fra þe bere.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 388 Sethe ham þerfore til þat the flesche parte fro þe bones [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. vnto separacioun of þe bonez; L. ad ossium separationem].
1580 T. Blundeville Foure Offices Horsemanship (rev. ed.) v. 52 The shoulder parteth from the breast, and so leaves an open rift..in the flesh and film next under the skin.
?1594 H. Constable Diana (new ed.) vi. ix. sig. E6 But from his bow a fiery arrow parteth.
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. xii. 34 His tongue could not well part from the roofe without a kinde of chanking.
1679 Established Test 13 A stolen smile will part from me.
1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 422 Ev'n thought meets thought e'er from the lips it part.
1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 2 Wheat Ears..contain in them very thin little Kernels, that will easily part from their Chaff.
1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales III. xv. 168 The sheep caught the disease and the wool parted.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Seam-rent, said of a shoe when the upper leather begins to part from the sole.
a1902 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) xliv. 200 Exactly at this moment the light veil of cloud parted from the sun.
1932 S. C. H. Davis Motor Racing v. 74 The whole of the front axle had parted from its underslung spring on one side.
1989 Independent 27 Oct. 3/8 After that Sir Alan's world parts at a rate of knots from the charitable traditions of monastery life.
2000 Washington Times (Nexis) 17 Aug. a20 Most of the tires involved in separation incidents, where the tread parted from the casing of the tire..were manufactured during a 10-month strike in 1994.
7. transitive. To keep separate or apart; to keep (a thing) separate from another; to form a boundary or interval between.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > partition or form a partition
sever1422
part1458
intercept1662
intersect1785
split1795
partition1818
screen1850
fence1881
1458 in C. Innes & P. Chalmers Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc (1856) II. 103 And swa north to Drumnagub that partis Kenny Lytil and Schangly.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) ii. 1367 Batht thai arthys..Be land partyd or be se.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 68 Each wyndo arched in the top & parted from oother..by flat fayr bolteld Columns.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 56 Which Riuer parteth also Dacia, from Mysia.
1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Filum Aquæ is the Thread or Middle of the Stream, where a River parts Two Lordships.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 20 Where seas or deserts part them from the rest.
1796 M. Bruce Poems Several Occasions 148 So now the good were parted from the bad.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 60 As..two wild men supporters of a shield, Painted, who stare at open space, nor glance The one at other, parted by the shield.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §1. 1 The peninsula which parts the Baltic from the Northern seas.
1904 J. London Sea-wolf xix. 184 Between them was the gulf that parts the living and the dead.
1986 D. Green Gulf of Finland on Ice in R. Girling New Sunday Times Trav. Bk. 7 Very soon we would not be able to see the line of tall evergreens that parted beach from cloud.
II. Senses relating to division, disintegration, etc.
8.
a. transitive. To divide into parts (by physical separation, by assigning boundaries, or in thought); to break, cleave, sever. †to part the hoof: to have cloven hooves (cf. divide v. 1b) (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)]
to-shedc888
to-dealeOE
dealc950
twemea1023
to-doOE
to-shiftc1122
brittenc1175
sunderc1230
depart1297
parta1300
twain15..
dividec1380
minisha1382
dressc1410
dissever1417
sever1435
quarterc1440
distinct1526
videc1540
disperse1548
several1570
separate1581
dirempt1587
distinguish1609
piecemeal1611
discrete1624
dispart1629
slit1645
parcel1652
canton1653
tripartite1653
split1707
carve1711
scind1869
a1300 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 91 (MED) Adames eyres beoþ parted on þre.
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 8 Elleuene foot or litel moore or lesse My shadwe was at thilke tyme, as there Of swiche feet as my lengthe parted were In sixe feet equal of proporcioun.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 49 (MED) Knoute..parted þe lond in foure parties.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 807 (MED) Þe noll of Nicollas þe kyng he fra þe nebb partis.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxi. 18 Thai partid his clathes in foure partis.
1594 Willobie his Auisa xlv. f. 42v A heauy burden wearieth one, Which being parted then in twaine, Seemes very light.
1611 Bible (King James) Lev. ii. 6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and powr oyle thereon. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xiv. 6 Euery beast that parteth the hoofe, and cleaueth the clift into two clawes. View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Exod. xiv. 21) 44 That torrent of fire..yet parted it self; making a kinde of a lane.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Dialysis In Grammar, a Character consisting of two Points ¨ placed over two Vowels of a Word, which would otherwise make a Diphthong; but are here parted into two Syllables.
1798 W. S. Landor Gebir vii. 55 The wave, parted by the pouncing beak, Swells up the sides and closes far astern.
1827 W. Wordsworth Poet. Wks. (ed. 2) I. 319 Spring parts the clouds with softest airs, That she may sun thee.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §9. 112 The besiegers were parted into two masses by the Seine.
1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xx. 280 Tarzan..parted the tall jungle grass and pointed out the little cabin to her.
1998 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 20 Sept. c20 The river split, fast whitewater at left appearing like a gentle cascade. At center, a huge boulder parted the river.
†b. transitive. Mathematics. To perform a division. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > divide
to-dealeOE
to divide?c1425
part1579
distribute1593
1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 8 To deuide or parte, is ingeniously to find how oftentimes the diuisor is conteined in the number to be diuided.
c. transitive. To divide (the hair) into or along a parting with a comb, etc. Cf. parting n. 7b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > parts of the hair or head relating to hairdressing > part the hair [verb (transitive)]
part1615
shade1818
repart1865
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 68 The haire of their heads..They part it before in the midst, and pleate it behind.
1709 W. Congreve tr. Ovid Art of Love iii. 190 A Face too long shou'd part and flat the Hair.
1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 132 His hair..parted at the foretop.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Prose Wks. (1888) I. 405 The hair delicately parted on the forehead.
1839 J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Church (1847) iii. 30 The hair of his upper lip being parted on both sides lay upon his breast.
1919 J. Conrad Arrow of Gold ii. iv That day she carried no barbarous arrow in her hair. It was parted on one side, brushed back severely, and tied with a black ribbon.
1986 D. May Hannah Arendt iii. 39 Her style was more severe now—her hair parted in the middle and brushed close to the sides of her long oval head.
2002 Wenatchee Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Mar. b19 When he started in the [hairdressing] business, everyone parted their hair down the middle, with the sides ‘feathered’.
d. transitive. Nautical. To break or allow the breaking of (a securing rope or cable) so as to come loose from an anchor, a mooring, a vessel in tow, etc. Also with anchor as object, and intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > break (rope) or have (ropes) broken
part1793
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §149 In the attempt, it parted the grappling rope.
1800 Ld. Nelson Let. 26 Feb. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 200 She having split her maintopsail and foresail, parted the cable, let go another anchor.
1802 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Rec.) (1940) II. 42 Sent the boat with Lt Decatur to sweep for the anchor we parted.
1854 G. B. Richardson Univ. Code (ed. 12) v. §3746 I have parted, sweep for my anchor when I am gone.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Apr. 6/2 He did not think that three of the best ocean tugs could have taken the Federation through the cyclonic seas without parting their hawsers.
1950 G. Hackforth-Jones Worst Enemy iii. 202 The old ship parted her moorings and drifted down on to a destroyer trot.
1986 New Yorker 9 June 97/3 The harbormaster will..say you parted lines, or you're taking on water, and you have to race to the pier.
1990 Lifeboat (RNLI) Spring 229/1 As the Atlantic shot forward the tow parted and Crew Members..received rope burns on their hands.
2002 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 5 Oct. 2 d At the Naval Academy, the USS Rina Mercdes [sic]..parted its moorings and drifted out into the Severn River.
9. intransitive. To undergo division, be divided or severed; to break, split in two or in pieces; (of the sky, heavens, etc.) to open.
ΚΠ
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 51 (MED) Þe heuene parted as a book folden.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 74 (MED) Þat veyne schal be leten blood in þe ende þe whiche extremite compressed doune with þe finger parteþ in two, but þer passeþ but litil blood oute of þat veine.
c1500 Lawys of Schippis (Harl.) c. 22 And it [sc. the ship] happynnis to part and ryve thai saulf thame..the best wyse that thai may.
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 16v The clouen ayre, which parteth in sunder at the end of his arrow.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings ii. 14 When hee also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went ouer. View more context for this quotation
1685 Hist. of Nicerotis 19 He set his Carpenter the next day to work, and fram'd such a Box, which lockt the two sides together, it parted of it self, and fell the one half on one side, and the other of the other, over the Boat sides.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 34 They came into the Country Road, where the track parted.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. xi. 294 The gentle waters gently part In murmurs round the prow.
1830 F. Marryat King's Own III. xiv. 234 The frigate parted amidships.
1898 Daily News 24 Nov. 5/5 The cord parted, and he was dashed to the pavement lifeless.
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xxxviii. 383 He set to sawing patiently at the coir cable till suddenly it parted under the blade with a splash.
1986 E. Longford Pebbled Shore (1988) ii. 19 A patriarch with glittering eyes and long white beard that parted in the wind as he strode up Highgate Hill.
1995 Diver Aug. 67/2 As I snorkelled down into the fish the shoal parted in a synchronised entity before me and closed around me.
2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 May §vi. ii. 48/1 When the lava mysteriously parted around it, the hacienda was gratefully renamed by Vogel's wife for the saint.
10.
a. transitive. To dissolve or break up (an assembly or gathering, a connection, relation, etc.) by separation of the persons or parties concerned. Occasionally intransitive. Now only in to part company: to break an association (with), take leave, separate (from) (cf. sense 3); (later also) to disagree (with), differ in opinion (from).to part brass rags: see brass n. Compounds 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > part or go away in different directions
dealc1000
shedc1000
twin?c1225
departc1290
to-go13..
parta1325
severc1375
disseverc1386
to part companya1400
discontinue1576
to fall apart1599
flya1677
separate1794
dispart1804
split1843
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > a company or assembly
dissever1393
parta1400
skaila1400
to break up1483
disassemble1550
dismiss1582
disband1591
unflock1611
revoke1675
break1685
bust1855
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate or isolate [verb (transitive)] > dissolve or break up
to part companya1400
to break up1483
disband1591
break1685
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate or isolate [verb (transitive)] > break off association with
dropa1616
to part company1720
ding1819
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 13850 (MED) Wiþ þis þei parted [a1400 Gött. partid; a1400 Vesp. scaild] her semble.
a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 35 (MED) Sum tyme þer was no jongkerie but I whas þer atte; Now pouert partiþ felowschep.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 4791 (MED) On þis manere parted þer feste; Wiþ loue bygan, endede wiþ cheste.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 9166 (MED) Ye parte neuere company.
1600 C. G. Minte of Deformities sig. Cv Ile make my belte Breake out her bounds ere we part company.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 123 If the Gold..did not..cause us to part Companies.
1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic II. ix. 132 The Night coming on, parted the Assembly, before anything was decided.
1798 T. Dibdin Mouth of Nile i. ii. 20 Tol lol de rol, my dear, dear girl, and must I fall in with you, to part company directly?
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxvii. 440 They parted company at the gate of Furnival's Inn.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 380 He parts company from the vain and impertinent talker.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (1884) ii. 76 The point at which the scientific man is apt to part company with the theologian.
1907 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 136/2 Where Powell parted company most fiercely from the Radicals was in his steadfast patriotism.
1921 W. A. Appleton What we want & where we Are (1922) Pref. p. xii Where we part company is in the matter of definition and method.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxvi. 511 When it [sc. a plant] forms pollen and ovules the two aspects of the gene pair part company.
1982 V. Brome Ernest Jones iv. 33 His relations with Maude became even more strained. Shortly afterwards they parted company.
2002 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Dec. a11 My wife Susan and I parted company in March 2000.
b. transitive. to part a fight (also †fray): to put an end to a fight by separating the combatants. Cf. sense 4a. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > make peace [verb (intransitive)] > part combatants
to part a fight (also fray)1533
stickle1693
break it up1936
1533 T. More Apologye xiii f.93v Yf matyr so were, that one..go forth and say that he had parted a fray, & pacyfyed the parties.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cvii. 83 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 173 Of Seas and winds he partes the fight.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 114 Welcome signior, you are almost come to parte almost a fray . View more context for this quotation
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 46 The Vice-Admiral..left not off till Night parted the Fray.
1709 H. Chandler Effort against Biggotry (ed. 2) Ded. sig. A 2v When I first ventur'd it abroad in the World, I expected the Fate that usually attends such as attempt to part a Fray, even to be box'd on both Ears.
1750 W. McFarlane Geneal. Coll. (1900) II. 31 He was killed..as he was parting a Fray and redding a Pley.
1832 L. Hunt Gentle Armourer ii, in Poet. Wks. (1860) 61 The monarch was about to part the fight when..sore passion seized the knight.
1961 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 1 57 He is comparing Saint-German's method to one parting a fight between two men by slapping one while merely restraining another.
c. transitive. to part beds: to cease to live together as husband and wife; to separate. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > divorce or separate [verb (intransitive)]
divort1581
dismiss1608
unmarry1635
divorce1643
separate1686
to part beds1710
to break a marriage1844
bust1880
to break up1912
split1942
split1942
uncouple1942
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 150. ⁋4 I could name Two, who after having had Seven Children, fell out and parted Beds upon the boiling of a Leg of Mutton.
1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. 20 They now lived so ill a Life together, that not having sufficient Proofs for a Divorce, he parted Beds.
2002 Leaf-Chron. (Tennessee) (Nexis) 18 Aug. 1 d He and the child's mother parted beds a long time ago.
III. Senses relating to sharing, distribution, etc.
11.
a. intransitive. To make division into shares; to give, take, or have a share; to partake (with a person; in, of, (rarely) with a thing). Now Scottish. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (intransitive)]
scot?c1225
deal1297
partc1300
to take partc1384
departc1440
skair1462
impart1471
participate1531
communicate1541
to part stakes (also shares)1553
boot1554
partake1561
intercommune1601
copart1637
to go sharers1644
to run shares1644
intervene1646
go1653
to go a share1655
to share and share alike (formerly also like)1656
to go shares1658
to go share and share alikea1661
to go snips (or snip)1671
to go snacks (or snack)1693
to club one's shares1814
to cut in1890
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (intransitive)] > divide and share
shiftc1000
partc1300
admeasure1469
snack1675
c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 264 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 226 (MED) Heo wollez party þar-of mid us.
c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 1658 Ȝef we ani good winne, For soþe þou schalt parten þer inne.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 38 (MED) Þe þyeues be uelaȝrede byeþ þo þet parteþ of þe þyefþe.
c1410 (c1350) Gamelyn (Harl. 7334) 402 (MED) I wil parte wiþ þe of my free lond.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 4706 (MED) I ffeede folk that hongry be, And parte with hem off my plente.
1488–9 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 122 And gif ther be ony persons that he plesis to call to parte with him [etc.].
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 254 Lat me and the Frinchemen pairt amang ws.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xxx. 24 As his part is that goeth downe to the battel, so shall his part bee that tarieth by the stuffe: they shall part alike. View more context for this quotation
1670 J. Wallis Let. 11 Jan. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 519 Who longs to hear of some here willing to part in the impression of my things at Leyden.
1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin xix. 187 Pairt sma' and siar a'. (Part small and serve all.)
†b. transitive. To share (something) with another or others; (of one person) to give a share of to another; (of a number of people) to take each a share of, share out. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (transitive)]
dealOE
partc1330
skair1462
parten1508
usurpa1513
communicatea1530
participate1531
partake1563
impart1581
reciprocate1611
copart1613
share1613
to take share of (something)1678
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > divide into shares > give a share of
partc1330
participate1531
partake1561
share1592
to give (a person) a show of1788
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 1919 Ȝif þou wilt half parte wiȝ ous, Þou sschalt hit haue.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) John xix. 24 Thei partiden my clothis to hem, and in to my cloth thei senten lott.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. xi. 50 (MED) Litel louiþ he þat lord..Þat þus partiþ wiþ þe poore a parcel whanne hym nediþ.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope ii. xviii Ye shalle parte to gyder your good.
a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 215 (MED) Now mercy, lord, I be not lore, But part with me al of þy grace, That I may se þy swete fface.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 140 Giff thame the pelffe to pairt amang thame.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 249 Long. Let's part the word? Mar. No, Ile not be your halfe. View more context for this quotation
1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. i Some few teares Wee'll part among vs.
1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 8 Jove himself no less content wou'd be, To part his Throne and share his Heav'n with thee.
1834 Pearl & Lit. Gaz. 12 Apr. 142/1 I parted my wardrobe among them, fitting them as well as I could.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xliv. 42 Her friend parted his breakfast..with the child and her grandfather.
†c. transitive to part stakes (also shares): = sense 11b. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (intransitive)]
scot?c1225
deal1297
partc1300
to take partc1384
departc1440
skair1462
impart1471
participate1531
communicate1541
to part stakes (also shares)1553
boot1554
partake1561
intercommune1601
copart1637
to go sharers1644
to run shares1644
intervene1646
go1653
to go a share1655
to share and share alike (formerly also like)1656
to go shares1658
to go share and share alikea1661
to go snips (or snip)1671
to go snacks (or snack)1693
to club one's shares1814
to cut in1890
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > other money-dealing operations
to part stakes (also shares)1553
marshal1771
float1872
squeeze1885
hedge1909
block1932
to lock in1950
divest1962
reintermediate1971
launder1973
wash1973
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 72 The Deuill and they..shall parte stakes with theim one daie.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 406 b To make Invocation to the dead, to part stakes of honour betwixt God and his Sainctes.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 304 I might part shares with my wife.
1629 J. Gaule Panegyrick 7 in Practique Theories Christs Predict. To share the Honour with him, and part stakes in the Prayse.
1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 42 This was before they parted Stakes.
1678 S. Pordage Siege of Babylon i. i. 2 Empire, our Friendships bounds, could not remove, We parted stakes, but cann't do so, in Love.
1850 C. Mathews Chanticleer vii. 97 I have two suits—I will give him one of them. Eats he coarse food, bread and water, and have I better? Surely we will part stakes.
12. transitive. To divide among a number of recipients; to distribute in shares, apportion. Usually with among or between, occasionally till. Now chiefly Scottish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > divide into shares > divide and share out
dealc1000
shiftc1000
to-partc1325
partc1330
departa1340
divide1377
portion?a1400
dressc1410
parcel1416
skiftc1420
describe1535
repart1540
sever1548
disparklea1552
enterparten1556
share1577
to share out1583
repartitec1603
dispart1629
parcena1641
cavel1652
partage1660
split1674
snack1675
partition1740
scantle1749
appart1798
whack1819
divvy1877
number1887
cut1928
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 4054 (MED) Merlin..seyd oȝain wende þai schold, Þe siluer to part and þe gold.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 296 (MED) He parted his wynnyng tille his men largely.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 4669 (MED) He name Darries riche tresoure And parted it among his ken.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4318 Þe pouert of oure persons for plente we hald, Þe quike [read quilke] is part vs, all þe pake, be parcells euyn.
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 158 Thus ben þe vij ȝyftys þat þe Holy Gost partuþ among monkynd.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 153 I will part them all you among.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cviii. 22 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 175 Let me part out Sichems fields.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. 1 Macc. v. 20 And there were parted to Simon three thousand men, to goe into Galilee.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northampt. 282 She parted herself, whilst living..betwixt these three places.
1717 A. Pope Leaving Town in Wks. 374 To part her time 'twixt reading and Bohea.
1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. xiv. 550 The first care of Edgar was to..make over to Lavinia the little portion intended to be parted between the sisters.
1809 W. Bawdwen tr. Domesday Bk. 332 This land was parted between 41 Burgesses who have 12 ploughs.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 209 Lands which seem to have been parted out among the magistrates and chief burghers.
1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick xix We'll hae to be thinkin hoo we'll pairt them amang us.
1900 Weekly Free Press & Aberdeen Herald 1 Sept. The warl's wark his been, like the warl's siller, ill pairtit.
1955 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 18 May 8/6 An old farmer was called on by his guidwife to ‘pairt oot’ a fowl at the dinner table.
†13.
a. transitive. To bestow, give away (to). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > impart
lendOE
common1340
parta1382
conveyc1386
impart1477
give1481
imprint1526
communicate1534
partake1561
impute1594
participate1598
communea1616
stamp1641
shove?a1650
conne1674
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Tobit iv. 9 If myche were to þee, abundauntly ȝif; if litil þer were, also litil gladly studie to parten [a1425 L.V. departe; L. impertiri].
c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 31 (MED) Parte almes to poore that for hit cryes.
c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 837 (MED) With glad herte parte thyn almesse.
c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 301 Nou han þei..spicerie sprad in her purse, to parten where hem lust.
b. intransitive. To make a gift or bestowal (of). Also figurative. Obsolete.
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Baruch vi. 27 The prestes..nether parten [a1425 L.V. ȝyuen] to seeke man nether to beggynge.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 152v And a welle multiplieþ his watirs and comyneþ him self, for he hideþ him self to noþinge and comyneþ and partiþ of him self als wele to pilgrimes and strangers as to men of cuntre.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. i. 156 (MED) Of such good as god sent goodlyche parteþ.
1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 98 The pore man..praiede to the apostlis to parten of her almes.
1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. A.iv For pouerte I parte in many a place To them that wyll not obedyent be.
†14. transitive. To mix or adulterate (wine) with other liquors or substances. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [verb (transitive)] > treat, adulterate, or flavour
abuse1574
trick1594
juniperate1605
parel1615
part1682
pearl1682
manage1686
load1860
liqueur1872
plaster1886
1682 Art & Myst. of Vintners 73 To part a Butt of Muskadel. Draw half your Wine into another Butt; then take your Lags of all sorts that do not prick, and so much Syrup as will not prick;..beat them up, and let it rest after you have blown the froth from off it.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Freeze, a thin..Cyder..us'd by Vintners..in parting their Wines, to lower the Price of them.
†IV. Senses relating to a party, side, etc.
15. transitive. Scottish. To side with, take the side of. Cf. party v. 1b. 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
1669 in W. Macfarlane Geneal. Coll. (1900) (Sc. Hist. Soc.) I. 58 Alexander Earl of Argyle parted the Baliol.
1715 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 89 The influence of High Church in England, who parted our disaffected party, and stopped all prosecution of them.

Compounds

† part-fray n. Obsolete rare a person who separates the combatants in a fight (cf. sense 10b).
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > factious strife or quarrel
seditiona1380
faction1549
parts1600
brigue1602
part-fray1631
stasis1933
1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. ii. 19 Pox of these part-frayes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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