partite
divided into parts, usually into a specified number of parts (usually used in combination): a tripartite agreement.
Botany. parted.
Origin of partite
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How to use partite in a sentence
In form these compositions, which were generally called divertimenti or partite (partie) resembled those just described.
Life Of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3) | Otto JahnThe women seemed to have erected a temporary tri-partite Entente-more-or-less-Cordiale.
Murder in the Gunroom | Henry Beam PiperA simple wall arcade runs round the lower half, the whole being covered by a plain quadri-partite vault.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich | C. H. B. QuennellThe leaves are said to be very deeply pinnately partite; but drawn—as neither pinnate nor partite!
Proserpina, Volume 1 | John RuskinThis would suggest the view that the vaulting was sex-partite.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys | Dugald Butler and Herbert Story
British Dictionary definitions for partite
/ (ˈpɑːtaɪt) /
(in combination) composed of or divided into a specified number of parts: bipartite
(esp of plant leaves) divided almost to the base to form two or more parts
Origin of partite
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