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† reˈpart, v. Obs.
[ad. F. répartir, f. re- re- + partir to part.]
1. trans. To divide or distribute, esp. among or to a number of persons.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 77 To giue the whole heart to one is not much, but howe much lesse, when amongst many it is reparted? 1598Barret Theor. Warres ii. i. 17 He is to repart the victuals..with liberalitie and equalitie vnto euery Camarada. Ibid. 20 The..Romanes reparted the people of their Armies into Legions. 1629J. M. tr. Fonseca's Dev. Contempl. 238 Whatsoeuer he gathered [of the manna] ouer and aboue, vnlesse he did repart the same vnto others, it stunke, and did rot and putrifie. 1663Gerbier Counsel 13 The expert Surveyor will repart the Windows..that they may..leave a solid peeres between them. 1681Rycaut tr. Gracian's Critick 136 Reparting unto every one their peculiar Lessons and Places of Preferment. 1755N. Magens Insurances I. 345 It was approved the same should be reparted as general Average on the Value of the 9600 Mks. given up at Hamburgh.
2. To say in reply. = repartee v. 2. rare—1.
1664Bulteel Birinthea 102 ‘Yes’, reparted Panthea, ‘I will not have you dye’.
3. (See quot.) rare—0.
The Fr. phrase is faire repartir un cheval (see Littré).
1727Bailey (vol. II), To Repart (with Horsemen) is to put a Horse on, or to make him part the second Time.
Hence † reˈparting vbl. n.; also † reˈparter.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 152 Of the temporall goods that God giues us, we be not lords but reparters. Ibid. 442 Since the riches they onely must get, but the reparting therof is at the will of many. 1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 46 In the meane time that these sixe men be occupied in the reparting of the men, the other sixe doe repart the women in three parts. |