Middle English Dictionary Entry
trī̆partīte adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | trī̆partīte adj. Also tripartit(a, tripertite, (error) triptite. |
| Etymology | L tripartītus, tripertītus; also cp. AF tripartite. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Having three parts or divisions; consisting of three parties [last quot.]; of a language: having three forms; also, in title: the (his) storie ~, the Historia Tripartita compiled by Cassiodorus, sometimes confused with Eusebius' Chronicle or his Historia Ecclesiastica; the ecclesiastical storie ~, etc.; (b) law of an indented document: written in three identical versions, drafted in triplicate.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.149 : Seynt Gregorie..clepeþ Constantyn þe emperour of good mynde, and in þe storie tripartita [L historia tripartita] his ende is aprevede.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)116/20 : The general sentens of þe bok was of þe tripartite world þat schuld be fro Adam to Antecrist, The first begynnyng of þe þirde world schuld be Crist.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.21 : The names of the auctores been rehersede here, of whom thys presente cronicle is abstracte: Iosephus..Hegesippus..Also the Ecclesiasticalle Story tripartite of whom be iij auctores, Eusebius, Ierom, and Theodorus the byschoppe.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)2.159 : Men of Englonde hade in the begynnenge a langage tripartite [Trev: þre manere speche], as of the sowthe parte of Englond, of the myddelle parte of Englonde, and of the northe parte of Englonde.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)2.161 : But as of the tripartite langage of Saxones..the weste men of Englonde sownde and acorde more with the men of the este..then the men of the northe with men of the sowthe.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.275 : Oon Socrates Cassiodorus commendethe in his story tripartite.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.147 : Eusebius and Pamphilus write the story ecclesiasticalle un to this processe, whiche story is callede tripertite.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)1031 : At the felde they mete, Freewyll, Vertew & Vyce, as trypartyte, Safe Vertew a lytell before the felde had gete.
b
- (1416) MSS Penshurst in HMC1.206 : To this my Will tripartite I sett my Seele.
- (1421) Indent.Catterick in Archaeol.J.759 : Thomas, Joh'n, And Rob't sall' mak ye pilers of ye forsaid brigge..has te was acorded' wyth' ye forsaid Joh'n Garett be a Indent'e tripartit.
- (1442) Doc.Ireland in RS 69275 : He was bounde by endenture tripartite to kepe the peas and be at good rule.
- (a1450) Code Laws in Willmore Hist.Walsall168 : Then the olde Masters of the Gilde shall by byll indented triptite [read: tripartite]..delyvr to the newe Masters alle the money.
- (1464) Doc.in Collect.Topogr.3268 : Alianore by hir dede tri-partite indented..hath relesed and quite claymed for hir and hir heirs for euermore.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)74 : At any grosse pourveyaunces or greete paymentes for wynes, the Thesaurer, Cofferer, or one of the clerkes..ought to be present, to knowe and entyr all manner of charges..and there to be delyvered by one indenture trypartite, the one to remayne with thes Butlers purveyours..the other parte, with the clerke of buttillary and sellare..in this houshold; the thirde parte to remayne in the countyng-house.