partible
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonpartible adjective
- partibility noun
- unpartible adjective
Etymology
Origin of partible
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin partibilis divisible, equivalent to Latin part ( īrī ) to divide, part + -ibilis -ible
Example Sentences
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A chief source of conflict was the practice of partible inheritance, whereby each son received an equal share of his father’s estate.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
They eventually forced him to abdicate, and under the principle of partible inheritance, in 843 they divided the empire among them in an agreement called the Treaty of Verdun.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
There was co-operation in working the fields but no communistic division of the crops, and the individual's hold upon his strips developed rapidly into an inheritable and partible ownership.
From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)
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