compart
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Verb
[edit]compart (third-person singular simple present comparts, present participle comparting, simple past and past participle comparted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To divide and share with others.
- (transitive) To divide into smaller parts; to divide into compartments.
- 1880, Lewis Wallace, Ben-Hur, Harper & Brothers:
- The walls were panelled; each panel was comparted like a modern office desk, and each compartment crowded with labelled folios all filemot with age and use.
- (transitive) To arrange or lay out according to a plan, with due distribution and disposition of parts.
- If I behold what inventions men have in comparting Musical intervals...
References
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “compart”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.