Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of or divided into four parts.
- adjective Involving four participants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In law, having four parts, or parties: as, a quadripartite government; a quadripartite agreement, etc.
- Divided into four parts; specifically, in botany and zoology, parted into four; divided to the base or entirely into four parts; in architecture, divided, as a vault, by the system of construction employed, into four compartments. Such a vault is the cardinal type of medieval Pointed vaulting.
- noun A book or treatise divided into four parts or treatises; a tetrabiblion: as, the last two books of Ptolemy's Quadripartite; the quadripartite (four Gospels) of the New Testament.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Divided into four parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Divided intofour parts. - adjective
Involving fourparties orparticipants ; four-party.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving four parties
Etymologies
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Examples
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The bays of vaulting were generally either squares or parallelograms, though sometimes not rectangular in shape, and each was divided into four concave vaulting cells by diagonal and intersecting groins, thus forming what is called a quadripartite vault.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 1846
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\ "\" The normal structure of a party is quadripartite, that is, based on the number four, since the Rule has a pyramid form.
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\ "\" The normal structure of a party is quadripartite, that is, based on the number four, since the Rule has a pyramid form.
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Certain multinational groupings, such as the "quadripartite" of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, have a very high level of trust.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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In the city, negotiations continued with the Soviets on establishing a new currency under quadripartite control.
Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010
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However, despite these minor details, a quadripartite scheme with the above characteristic endings as above seems to hold true in general and may help to understand how things evolved later on.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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In a nutshell, if my quadripartite system distinguishes four sets of endings exemplified in the 1ps with *-mi (objective progressive), *-m (objective non-progressive), *-h₂ór (subjective progressive) and *-h₂e (subjective non-progressive), then it stands to follow that there may likewise be four non-finite forms, participles, corresponding to each of the four categories I describe.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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However, despite these minor details, a quadripartite scheme with the above characteristic endings as above seems to hold true in general and may help to understand how things evolved later on.
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In a nutshell, if my quadripartite system distinguishes four sets of endings exemplified in the 1ps with *-mi (objective progressive), *-m (objective non-progressive), *-h₂ór (subjective progressive) and *-h₂e (subjective non-progressive), then it stands to follow that there may likewise be four non-finite forms, participles, corresponding to each of the four categories I describe.
The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model 2009
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Along with Israel, Turkey and Iran, it is the fourth party in the quadripartite security architecture of the Middle East, and the most aggressive one in many respects.
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