compartitionn.
/kɒmpɑːˈtɪʃən/ The action of comparting.† 1. Division and sharing with another. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > sharing > [noun]
del-takingc825
partakingc1384
partingc1384
communingc1425
participation?a1475
communicating1550
sharing1598
intercommonage1628
compartition1636
copartiality1677
deal1873
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > dividing and sharing out
partingc1330
departinga1340
divisionc1380
partition1429
departison1444
dividentc1450
skiftingc1450
partage1484
portiona1513
departition?c1530
dividend1535
portioning1556
reparting1574
repartment1574
parcery1582
sharing1598
apportion1628
compartition1636
department1677
dividing1719
whacking1851
partitionment1864
divide1873
share-out1877
whack1885
sharesies1916
carve-up1935
1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 62 Crownes hardly admit the compartition even of a brother.
2.
a. Architecture. The distribution and disposition of the parts of a plan; laying out.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > plans of buildings or structures > laying out in accordance with plans
comparting1624
compartition1624
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 39 I am now come to the Casting and Contexture of the whole Work, comprehended under the term of Compartition.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) By Compartition Architects understand a graceful and useful distribution of the whole ground~plot.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 2 a The Compartition is that which subdivides the whole Platform of the House into smaller Platforms.
b. One of the parts so marked out and divided.[So Johnson and others after him, but the quots. may belong to 2.]
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1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 14 Save in their Temples and Amphi-Theaters, which needed no Compartitions.
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 147 We might examine their Artifice in the contignations, the rule and order in the compartitions.
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