parcellatev.
/ˈpɑːsl̩eɪt/, /ˈpɑːsᵻleɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɑrsəˌleɪt/ transitive. To divide into separate parcels, parts, or portions.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into parcels or portions
parcel1416
cantc1440
to cantle out1583
share1595
parcellize1606
cantle1607
cantonize1608
partition1740
parcellate1927
1927 Palestine Bull. 11 Jan. 3/2 To parcellate and sell them [sc. orange groves] to small holders.
1939 Times 29 Aug. 9/2 It cannot be expected that, even counting the landowners who are to have their estates parcellated, the German minority in Poland would evacuate as much land as the Polish minority in Germany.
1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 5329/1 The cerebral cortex is parcellated into multiple domains that subserve different functions.
Derivatives
ˈparcellated adj.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [adjective] > divided > divided into parcels or portions
parcelled1593
parcellated1971
1971 Country Life 3 June 1374/1 About 50 [vine] growers among the 1,700 whose heavily parcellated strips dominate the district.
1998 Dædalus (Nexis) Summer 41 The state..consists of hierarchically parcellated authority with ritual hegemony at the center.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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