Also 7 quadru-. [ad. L. quadripartītio (Varro): see prec. and PARTITION.] Division into or by four.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, II. viii. § 3. The quadripartition of the Greek empire into four parts.
1690. Leybourn, Curs. Math., 144. The … Rules … of Logarithms, whereby … the Square Root [is] extracted by Bipartition,… the Biquadrate Root by Quadrupartition, &c.
1886. H. Carlisle, in Contemp. Rev., Oct., 528. This convenient quadri-partition of the month.
