Obs. rare. [f. as prec.] trans. To divide into three parts, or among three persons.
c. 1470. Harding, Chron. XV. i. (MS. Ashm. 34, lf. 13 b). Whanne he [Brutus] had the Ile alle Trypartytede [v.r. (MS.) tripertited; ed. 1543 tripertyed] He callede the Chyef logres aftir locryne.
1633. Gerard, Descr. Somerset (1900), 103. Reginald Prouse whose son’s daughters, married to the Earls of March Mortimer, to the Lord Zouche, and to the Earl of Pembrooke Hastings, tripartited these lands.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., III. 165. The Text at the first was tripartited, and two of those parts are already handled.
¶ b. erron. To divide (in general).
1653. T. Brooks, Precious Remedies (1658), 275, margin. The Counsellor saith, A States-man should be thus tripartited, his will to God, his love to his Master, his heart to his Country, his secret to his friend, his time to businesse.
