compartition

English

Etymology

Noun

compartition (countable and uncountable, plural compartitions)

(obsolete) The act of dividing into parts or compartments.
(obsolete) A division or compartment.
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
  Their temples […] needed no compartitions.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compartition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)