compart

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

compart (third-person singular simple present comparts, present participle comparting, simple past and past participle comparted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To divide and share with others.
2. (transitive) To divide into smaller parts; to divide into compartments.
   • 1880, Lewis Wallace, Ben-Hur, Harper & Brothers:

     The walls were panelled; each panel was comparted like a modern office desk, and each compartment crowded with labelled folios all filemot with age and use.

3. (transitive) To arrange or lay out according to a plan, with due distribution and disposition of parts.

   If I behold what inventions men have in comparting Musical intervals...

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “compart”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.