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partless, a. Now rare.|ˈpɑːtlɪs|
[f. part n. + -less.]
†1. Having no part or share (of, in); not sharing or participating in (= L. expers). Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter v. 7 God sall..make þam partles of heuen. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 335 Now rech I neuer for to declyne,..When I am partlez of perlez myne. c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. iii. 93 (Camb. MS.) Who is he þat nolde deme þat he that is ryht myhty of good weere partles of the Meede. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 251 Heber..was partelesse [immunis] in the confusion of the langage of theyme. 1515Barclay Ecloges ii, It were a great wonder among the women all, If none were partles of luste venerall. 1570Levins Manip. 91/11 Partlesse, expers.
2. Destitute of parts or talents (see part n. 12).
1603J. Davies Microcosm. (1878) 72/2 For Men of woorth (say they) with parts indow'd The tymes doe not respect, nor wil relive, But wholly vnto partlesse Spirits giue.
3. Having no parts; indivisible.
a1696Scarburgh Euclid (1705) 4 As indivisible and partless as a point. 1766G. Canning Anti-Lucretius iv. 273 How much more easily, and surely, breeds Our æther Motion, than your partless Seeds. a1868G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 36 Your parley was not done and there! You went into the partless air. 1904G. S. Fullerton Syst. Metaphysics xxv. 410 An unanalyzable and part-less thing like the percept. 1972Sci. Amer. Aug. 8/2 Democritus..desired that his atoms be partless, a property they were to have in common with geometrical points. |