Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COM-PAR-TI'TION
COM-PAR-TI'TION, n.
- The act of dividing into parts. In architecture, the division or disposition of the whole ground-plot of an edifice, into its various apartments. Encyc.
- Division; part divided; a separate part; as, amphitheaters needed no compartitions. – Wotton.
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