Obs. Also 6 try-. [f. TRI- + PART v.] trans. To divide into three parts.

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  Chiefly in pa. t. and pple. triparted, Sc. -it: cf. next.

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1528.  Lyndesay, Dreme, 202. The Patrimonie and rent … Quhilkis suld haue bene trypartit in to thre.

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1567.  Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.), 210. Quhy war ȝe sa vnnaturall, As … Tripartit and deuydit him?

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1621.  Quarles, Esther, Div. Poems (1717), 134. He That’s born, may challenge but one part of three Triparted thus.

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  So Tripartible a. [f. TRI- + L. partibilis divisible], separable into three parts or pieces.

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1857.  Gray, First Less. Bot., Gloss., 234.

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