quadripartiteadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌkwɒdrᵻˈpɑːtʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˌkwɑdrəˈpɑrˌtaɪt/

Forms:

α. late Middle English 1600s quatripartite, 1500s quartipertyte, 1500s quartripertite.

β. late Middle English– quadripartite, 1500s quadrapertit, 1500s quadripertite, 1500s–1600s quadrapertite, 1500s–1700s quadrupartite, 1600s quadripartit.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin quadripartītus, quadrupartītus.

Etymology: < classical Latin quadripartītus, quadripertītus (also quadrupartītus, quadrupertītus) (adjective) divided into four parts, in post-classical Latin also (noun) the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy (from 1267 in British sources) < quadri- quadri- comb. form + partītus partite adj. Compare Middle French, French quadripartite (1475), and also Middle French quadriparti (c1360 as adjective, c1370 as noun, both with reference to the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy).With the α. forms compare discussion at quadri- comb. form.

A. adj.

a. Of a contract, indenture, etc.: drawn up in four corresponding or identical versions, one for each party. Frequently used postpositively.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal obligation > contract > [adjective] > types of indenture

quadripartite1464

bipartite1506

quadruparted1575

octopartite1752

1464 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1836) III. 266 (MED) The seid John Leukenore by her dede quatripartite indented..han enfeffed Thomas Ursewyk..of and in the maners of Ponynges, Hangelton, Wyke, [etc.].

1527 in Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1854) (Chetham Soc.) 33 A declaracion of my will mynde and testament quadripertite therunto annexed.

1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §47 These deedes indented are not only bypartite..but also may be made..quadrupartite.

1650 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 224 As in the said indenture quadrapertite fully appeareth.

1705 G. Billinghurst Arcana Clericalia 399 The several Uses, Trusts, Estates and Limitations which in and by the said Indenture Quadripartite of release, were expressed, limited, and declared.

1831 W. J. Thoms Anecd. & Trad. (1839) p. xvi Their marriage settlement was made by an indenture quadripartite, dated the 25th Aug. 1630.

1874 4th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS 461/1 Extract from the will of Hugh Falstolf..made in the form of a quadripartite indenture.

1988 Geografiska Annaler 70 106 Another excellent example of close seigneurial involvement..comes in the form of a quadripartite indenture still sealed by all of the manorial lords who had interests in the charge.

b. Divided into or consisting of four parts; (Botany) having four parts joined at the base (cf. partite adj. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > divided into four

quartereda1425

quartléc1425

quadripartite?a1475

quadrupart1602

four-parteda1620

quadral1681

four-cleft1793

tesseratomic1887

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 111 (MED) That kynge Nabugodonosor hade a dreame of a quadripartite [L. quadripartita] ymage [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. þe ymage of foure manere þinges i-made], of whom he was aferede, in the secunde yere of his reigne.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miv^v/1 Quadripartite, quadripartitus.

1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. Illustr. 68 Frederique the thirds institution of the quadripartit society of S. Georges shield.

a1656 Abp. J. Ussher in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 46 Thomas Becket (as we read in the Quadrilogue, or Quadripartite History of his Life).

1723 tr. Pliny Epistles xviii The Action was Quadripartite, laid before a Bench, consisting of four different Courts in one.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1831) IV. 217 The quadripartite discourse upon Phil. ii. 6.

1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 367 The vaulting is usually quadripartite, but sometimes sexpartite.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 290 If the union between the component styles does not extend to midway between their base and apex, the style is partite, and is described as bipartite, tripartite, quadripartite, &c., according to the number of partitions.

1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 584 The tubular receptacle..is even quadripartite, corresponding to the four perianth-leaves and to the four stamens.

1904 Bot. Gaz. 37 191 Such quadripartite thread with chromatic granules regularly arranged might give the appearance of being only bipartite.

1936 Amer. Midl. Naturalist 17 880 Most striking of all is the distinct quadripartite arrangement of the septa within the calyx.

1954 P. Larkin Let. 29 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 226 Kingsley wants me, Wain, Davie & himself to appear in a quadripartite pamphlet: he is very anxious to form ‘a school’.

1987 Jrnl. Anat. 153 123 The branching patterns of both the anterior and posterior segmental arteries were classified into one of four types: magistral, cruciate, bifurcating or quadripartite.

2. Divided among, shared by, or involving four parties or four people.

ΚΠ

1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. xvi. 1376 Those godly Fathers doe hetherto appeare..cleane contrarie to this forme of our Bretheren..for all these matters of this their quadripartite gouernment in Ecclesiasticall causes.

1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie iii. ii. sig. E2 They wonder wherefore, but commit the matter to our quadrapertit wit.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxviii. 238 Your Reconciliation is now effected; a Friendship Quadrupartite is commenced.

1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 44 They..formed a quadripartite alliance.

1950 Times 2 Mar. 7/6 Postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications with foreign countries are subject to censorship—technically quadripartite, but actually Russian.

1989 Nature 12 Jan. 115/3 These include the ITER (International Tokamak Experimental Reactor) studies by a quadripartite team (United States, Soviet Union, Europe and Japan).

B. n.

Usually in form Quadripartite. The Tetrabiblos (‘Four Books’) by Ptolemy, an exposition of astrology. Formerly also: †a treatise dealing with four major sciences (obsolete).

ΚΠ

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 27 (MED) Ptholomeus..made moo processesse in astronomye then were afore his tyme, as the almageste, the perspective, the quadripartite in iuggementes [L. in judiciis Quadripartitum], and mony other bookes of astronomye.

a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 477 In his quadripartite made of Astrologie, Of phisike, & of this arte of Alchymye, And also of magike naturalle.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 133 Ptolomæus maketh mention of them in his quadripartite.

1614 W. Jones Mysterie of Christes Natiuitie sig. B3^v In his Comment vpon Ptolemies quadripartite, treating Christs Natiuitie.

1701 J. Whalley tr. Ptolemy sig. a (title) Ptolemy's Quadripartite; or, four books concerning The Influences of the Stars.

1798 J. Worsdale Genethliacal Astrol. (ed. 2) 105 Those..who intend to study this incomparable Art..I refer to the Quadripartite of the venerable Ptolemy.

1822 J. M. Ashmand sig. a (title) Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos or Quadripartite, being Four Books of The Influences of the Stars.

1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 363 Not flailing among Almagests and Quadripartites but directly reading the approach of eclipses, the passage of the argyrocomate meteors, and the phases of the stars.

Compounds

quadripartite distinction n. a division into four categories.

ΚΠ

1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 383 The quadripartit distinction of Ciuilians which they haue.

1944 G. H. Blake Maritime Boundaries p. x Turning to the contents of Volume 5 in the series, a quadripartite distinction may be made.

2001 M. Baltin in M. Baltin & C. Collins Handbk. Contemp. Syntactic Theory (2003) viii. 242 This quadripartite distinction is represented..in terms of lexical decomposition into a meta-language.

quadripartite division n. a division into four parts, classes, etc.; (Church History) a fourfold division of tithes.

ΚΠ

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. iv. 10 Making a quadripartite division of good wine.

1704 W. Kennett Case of Impropriations 14 A Rule obtained for dividing the Fund into Four Parts, One to the Fabrick and Ornaments of the Church; another to the officiating Priest; another to the Poor..; and a fourth reserved to the more immediate service of the Bishop. [Note] This quadripartite Division is said to have been prescribed by Simplicius, Bishop of Rome.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vii. 442 The quadripartite division, to the bishop, the clergy, the fabric and services of the church, and the poor, generally prevailed in the West.

1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 724 The quadripartite division of theology, into exegetical, dogmatical, historical, and practical theology.

1953 J. Lukacs Great Powers & E. Europe 325 Ribbentrop's letter to Stalin had invited the Soviet Union to participate with Germany, Italy, and Japan in a quadripartite division of the globe.

2002 S. Bassnett Transl. Stud. ii. 47 His quadripartite division is..highly idiosyncratic, but it does manage to avoid one great pitfall: periodization, or compartmentalization of literary history.

quadripartite groining n. the groining in a quadripartite vault.

ΚΠ

1855 G. E. Street Brick & Marble Middle Ages viii. 133 Simple quadripartite groining with diagonal and transverse ribs, and none intermediate, is quite sufficient for construction, and is in no degree whatever strengthened by the multiplication and ramification of perplexing ribs.

1911 S. B. Platner Topography & Monuments Anc. Rome (ed. 2) xi. 336 On these piers rested the roof of the nave, divided into three bays with quadripartite groining.

quadripartite vault n. a vault divided into four converging compartments.

ΚΠ

1855 J. Fergusson Illustr. Handbk. Archit. II. viii. ii. 879 How various and painful were the steps by which the French arrived at their system of vaulting..by a combination of quadripartite and hexapartite intersecting vaults.

1868 M. E. C. Walcott Sacred Archæol. 52 The Baldachino at Gerona..stands upon four shafts, supporting a flat quadripartite vault.

1952 L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. vi. 116 At the point of intersection of the ribs, in a simple quadripartite vault, was set a block of stone, now known as a ‘boss’.

1961 J. Fitchen Constr. Gothic Cathedrals 217/2 Although sexpartite vaults were not entirely superseded by quadripartite vaults in the great cathedrals of the thirteenth century, the latter were certainly the more characteristic form.

quadripartite vaulting n. the work or structure forming a quadripartite vault.

ΚΠ

1830 W. Whewell Archit. Notes German Churches i. 29 The quadripartite vaulting with one window in each compartment is..manifestly later than the vaulting like that of Worms.

1951 H. Braun Introd. Eng. Mediaeval Archit. (1967) iv. 79 By the time fully-ribbed quadripartite vaulting had appeared, the French masons had begun to make the attempt to give some aesthetic support to the ribs.

1990 Early Music 18 364 The artist of the Flemish Heures de Milan convincingly shows..a highly detailed Gothic cathedral interior replete with arcade, triforium and clerestory, as well as quadripartite vaulting.

Derivatives

quadriˈpartitely adv. in a quadripartite manner; into four parts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adverb] > into four parts

quadripartitely1552

quarterly1576

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Quadripartitlye.

1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked lviii. §584 The year [is divided] quadripartitely into Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.

1946 Times 28 Nov. 4/5 In accordance with Potsdam we proceeded to allow the dismantling of seven plants which had been..allocated quadripartitely in the early stages.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quadripartite
释义	quadripartiteadj.n. Brit. /ˌkwɒdrᵻˈpɑːtʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌkwɑdrəˈpɑrˌtaɪt/ Forms: α. late Middle English 1600s quatripartite, 1500s quartipertyte, 1500s quartripertite. β. late Middle English– quadripartite, 1500s quadrapertit, 1500s quadripertite, 1500s–1600s quadrapertite, 1500s–1700s quadrupartite, 1600s quadripartit. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin quadripartītus, quadrupartītus. Etymology: < classical Latin quadripartītus, quadripertītus (also quadrupartītus, quadrupertītus) (adjective) divided into four parts, in post-classical Latin also (noun) the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy (from 1267 in British sources) < quadri- quadri- comb. form + partītus partite adj. Compare Middle French, French quadripartite (1475), and also Middle French quadriparti (c1360 as adjective, c1370 as noun, both with reference to the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy).With the α. forms compare discussion at quadri- comb. form. A. adj. 1. a. Of a contract, indenture, etc.: drawn up in four corresponding or identical versions, one for each party. Frequently used postpositively. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > contract > [adjective] > types of indenture quadripartite1464 bipartite1506 quadruparted1575 octopartite1752 1464 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1836) III. 266 (MED) The seid John Leukenore by her dede quatripartite indented..han enfeffed Thomas Ursewyk..of and in the maners of Ponynges, Hangelton, Wyke, [etc.]. 1527 in Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1854) (Chetham Soc.) 33 A declaracion of my will mynde and testament quadripertite therunto annexed. 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §47 These deedes indented are not only bypartite..but also may be made..quadrupartite. 1650 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 224 As in the said indenture quadrapertite fully appeareth. 1705 G. Billinghurst Arcana Clericalia 399 The several Uses, Trusts, Estates and Limitations which in and by the said Indenture Quadripartite of release, were expressed, limited, and declared. 1831 W. J. Thoms Anecd. & Trad. (1839) p. xvi Their marriage settlement was made by an indenture quadripartite, dated the 25th Aug. 1630. 1874 4th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS 461/1 Extract from the will of Hugh Falstolf..made in the form of a quadripartite indenture. 1988 Geografiska Annaler 70 106 Another excellent example of close seigneurial involvement..comes in the form of a quadripartite indenture still sealed by all of the manorial lords who had interests in the charge. b. Divided into or consisting of four parts; (Botany) having four parts joined at the base (cf. partite adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > divided into four quartereda1425 quartléc1425 quadripartite?a1475 quadrupart1602 four-parteda1620 quadral1681 four-cleft1793 tesseratomic1887 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 111 (MED) That kynge Nabugodonosor hade a dreame of a quadripartite [L. quadripartita] ymage [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. þe ymage of foure manere þinges i-made], of whom he was aferede, in the secunde yere of his reigne. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miv^v/1 Quadripartite, quadripartitus. 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. Illustr. 68 Frederique the thirds institution of the quadripartit society of S. Georges shield. a1656 Abp. J. Ussher in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 46 Thomas Becket (as we read in the Quadrilogue, or Quadripartite History of his Life). 1723 tr. Pliny Epistles xviii The Action was Quadripartite, laid before a Bench, consisting of four different Courts in one. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1831) IV. 217 The quadripartite discourse upon Phil. ii. 6. 1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 367 The vaulting is usually quadripartite, but sometimes sexpartite. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 290 If the union between the component styles does not extend to midway between their base and apex, the style is partite, and is described as bipartite, tripartite, quadripartite, &c., according to the number of partitions. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 584 The tubular receptacle..is even quadripartite, corresponding to the four perianth-leaves and to the four stamens. 1904 Bot. Gaz. 37 191 Such quadripartite thread with chromatic granules regularly arranged might give the appearance of being only bipartite. 1936 Amer. Midl. Naturalist 17 880 Most striking of all is the distinct quadripartite arrangement of the septa within the calyx. 1954 P. Larkin Let. 29 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 226 Kingsley wants me, Wain, Davie & himself to appear in a quadripartite pamphlet: he is very anxious to form ‘a school’. 1987 Jrnl. Anat. 153 123 The branching patterns of both the anterior and posterior segmental arteries were classified into one of four types: magistral, cruciate, bifurcating or quadripartite. 2. Divided among, shared by, or involving four parties or four people. ΚΠ 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. xvi. 1376 Those godly Fathers doe hetherto appeare..cleane contrarie to this forme of our Bretheren..for all these matters of this their quadripartite gouernment in Ecclesiasticall causes. 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie iii. ii. sig. E2 They wonder wherefore, but commit the matter to our quadrapertit wit. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxviii. 238 Your Reconciliation is now effected; a Friendship Quadrupartite is commenced. 1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 44 They..formed a quadripartite alliance. 1950 Times 2 Mar. 7/6 Postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications with foreign countries are subject to censorship—technically quadripartite, but actually Russian. 1989 Nature 12 Jan. 115/3 These include the ITER (International Tokamak Experimental Reactor) studies by a quadripartite team (United States, Soviet Union, Europe and Japan). B. n. Usually in form Quadripartite. The Tetrabiblos (‘Four Books’) by Ptolemy, an exposition of astrology. Formerly also: †a treatise dealing with four major sciences (obsolete). ΚΠ ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 27 (MED) Ptholomeus..made moo processesse in astronomye then were afore his tyme, as the almageste, the perspective, the quadripartite in iuggementes [L. in judiciis Quadripartitum], and mony other bookes of astronomye. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 477 In his quadripartite made of Astrologie, Of phisike, & of this arte of Alchymye, And also of magike naturalle. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 133 Ptolomæus maketh mention of them in his quadripartite. 1614 W. Jones Mysterie of Christes Natiuitie sig. B3^v In his Comment vpon Ptolemies quadripartite, treating Christs Natiuitie. 1701 J. Whalley tr. Ptolemy sig. a (title) Ptolemy's Quadripartite; or, four books concerning The Influences of the Stars. 1798 J. Worsdale Genethliacal Astrol. (ed. 2) 105 Those..who intend to study this incomparable Art..I refer to the Quadripartite of the venerable Ptolemy. 1822 J. M. Ashmand sig. a (title) Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos or Quadripartite, being Four Books of The Influences of the Stars. 1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 363 Not flailing among Almagests and Quadripartites but directly reading the approach of eclipses, the passage of the argyrocomate meteors, and the phases of the stars. Compounds quadripartite distinction n. a division into four categories. ΚΠ 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 383 The quadripartit distinction of Ciuilians which they haue. 1944 G. H. Blake Maritime Boundaries p. x Turning to the contents of Volume 5 in the series, a quadripartite distinction may be made. 2001 M. Baltin in M. Baltin & C. Collins Handbk. Contemp. Syntactic Theory (2003) viii. 242 This quadripartite distinction is represented..in terms of lexical decomposition into a meta-language. quadripartite division n. a division into four parts, classes, etc.; (Church History) a fourfold division of tithes. ΚΠ 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. iv. 10 Making a quadripartite division of good wine. 1704 W. Kennett Case of Impropriations 14 A Rule obtained for dividing the Fund into Four Parts, One to the Fabrick and Ornaments of the Church; another to the officiating Priest; another to the Poor..; and a fourth reserved to the more immediate service of the Bishop. [Note] This quadripartite Division is said to have been prescribed by Simplicius, Bishop of Rome. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vii. 442 The quadripartite division, to the bishop, the clergy, the fabric and services of the church, and the poor, generally prevailed in the West. 1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 724 The quadripartite division of theology, into exegetical, dogmatical, historical, and practical theology. 1953 J. Lukacs Great Powers & E. Europe 325 Ribbentrop's letter to Stalin had invited the Soviet Union to participate with Germany, Italy, and Japan in a quadripartite division of the globe. 2002 S. Bassnett Transl. Stud. ii. 47 His quadripartite division is..highly idiosyncratic, but it does manage to avoid one great pitfall: periodization, or compartmentalization of literary history. quadripartite groining n. the groining in a quadripartite vault. ΚΠ 1855 G. E. Street Brick & Marble Middle Ages viii. 133 Simple quadripartite groining with diagonal and transverse ribs, and none intermediate, is quite sufficient for construction, and is in no degree whatever strengthened by the multiplication and ramification of perplexing ribs. 1911 S. B. Platner Topography & Monuments Anc. Rome (ed. 2) xi. 336 On these piers rested the roof of the nave, divided into three bays with quadripartite groining. quadripartite vault n. a vault divided into four converging compartments. ΚΠ 1855 J. Fergusson Illustr. Handbk. Archit. II. viii. ii. 879 How various and painful were the steps by which the French arrived at their system of vaulting..by a combination of quadripartite and hexapartite intersecting vaults. 1868 M. E. C. Walcott Sacred Archæol. 52 The Baldachino at Gerona..stands upon four shafts, supporting a flat quadripartite vault. 1952 L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. vi. 116 At the point of intersection of the ribs, in a simple quadripartite vault, was set a block of stone, now known as a ‘boss’. 1961 J. Fitchen Constr. Gothic Cathedrals 217/2 Although sexpartite vaults were not entirely superseded by quadripartite vaults in the great cathedrals of the thirteenth century, the latter were certainly the more characteristic form. quadripartite vaulting n. the work or structure forming a quadripartite vault. ΚΠ 1830 W. Whewell Archit. Notes German Churches i. 29 The quadripartite vaulting with one window in each compartment is..manifestly later than the vaulting like that of Worms. 1951 H. Braun Introd. Eng. Mediaeval Archit. (1967) iv. 79 By the time fully-ribbed quadripartite vaulting had appeared, the French masons had begun to make the attempt to give some aesthetic support to the ribs. 1990 Early Music 18 364 The artist of the Flemish Heures de Milan convincingly shows..a highly detailed Gothic cathedral interior replete with arcade, triforium and clerestory, as well as quadripartite vaulting. Derivatives quadriˈpartitely adv. in a quadripartite manner; into four parts. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adverb] > into four parts quadripartitely1552 quarterly1576 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Quadripartitlye. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked lviii. §584 The year [is divided] quadripartitely into Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. 1946 Times 28 Nov. 4/5 In accordance with Potsdam we proceeded to allow the dismantling of seven plants which had been..allocated quadripartitely in the early stages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1464
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