Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being partible; susceptibility of division, partition, or severance; separability: as, the partibility of an inheritance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
partible ;divisibility ;separability .
Etymologies
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From partible.
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Examples
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Even here it is not exclusively the partible soul: it is still the impartible as well: what in it knows partition is parted without partibility; undivided as giving itself to the entire body, a whole to a whole, it is divided as being effective in every part.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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As partibility goes with body, so impartibility with the bodiless: what partition is possible where there is no magnitude?
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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In the case of such ideal-forms we may affirm complete partibility.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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As they claim as joint-heirs or parceners, the land must have been subject to partibility, and therefore of socage tenure.
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