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De - Pt| English Dictionary: parted | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Part \Part\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parting}.] [F. partir, L. partire, partiri, p. p. partitus, fr. pars, gen. partis, a part. See {Part}, n.] 1. To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. [bd]Thou shalt part it in pieces.[b8] --Lev. ii. 6. There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues. --Keble. 2. To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share. To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee. --Pope. They parted my raiment among them. --John xix. 24. 3. To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. --Ruth i. 17. While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. --Luke xxiv. 51. The narrow seas that part The French and English. --Shak. 4. Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants. The stumbling night did part our weary powers. --Shak. 5. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver. The liver minds his own affair, . . . And parts and strains the vital juices. --Prior. 6. To leave; to quit. [Obs.] Since presently your souls must part your bodies. --Shak. {To part a cable} (Naut.), to break it. {To part company}, to separate, as travelers or companions. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Parted \Part"ed\, a. 1. Separated; devided. 2. Endowed with parts or abilities. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 3. (Bot.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc. --Gray. | |
