tripartitionn.
/trʌɪpɑːˈtɪʃən/ Division into three parts; partition among three; †Arithmetic division by three (obsolete).
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1652 E. Sparke Scintillula Altaris (1663) 293 St. Augustine giveth another and very proper tripartition.
1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 103 He divided the vast Revenues of his Abby into three parts... Almost all the Abbots of France, Germany and Italy..made a Tripartition of the Revenues of their Abbies.
1853 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. III. xxxii. 309 The tripartition of the Cordilleras, and..the spreading of their branches.
1908 J. Massie in Daily Chron. 14 May 4/4 It is the principle of this Bill—its tripartition of Irish University education—that I do not like.
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