Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being parted or divided; divisible. See
partible . - Having a share.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
partible .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
parted .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And what Jefferson wanted to accomplish -- and he did successfully -- was to break up these estates because when you -- when you shift from primogeniture to a pattern of what ` s called "partable inheritance," where the estate is divided equally among the heirs, the family estates tend to dissipate very quickly.
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O merciful God and marvellous above all things, to whom all brute beasts be made meek, and wild things be obedient, who vouchsafest to call to thy mercy thy blessed servant, to make him partable of thy excellent joy, give thou us grace by his prayer, which knew by revelation that his soul should be loosed from the body by temporal death, to be preserved from all manner evil and everlasting death.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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He set up a partable gas grill on the floor in a big foyer and taught the class as his wife chopped and prepped ingredients to keep things moving.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Zune Player, video iPod, Apple iPhone, Apple iTv and other MP4 partable devices.
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Zune Player, video iPod, Apple iPhone, Apple iTv and other MP4 partable devices.
2BakSa.Net 2009
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Zune Player, video iPod, Apple iPhone, Apple iTv and other MP4 partable devices.
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Zune Player, video iPod, Apple iPhone, Apple iTv and other MP4 partable devices.
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Zune Player, video iPod, Apple iPhone, Apple iTv and other MP4 partable devices.
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The output AVI video can be edit in windows movie maker, and playback on some partable devices.
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