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King James Dictionary
or P`ART, n. L. pars, partis.
1. A portion, piece or fragment separated from a whole thing as, to divide an orange into five parts.
2. A portion or quantity of a thing not separated in fact, but considered or mentioned by itself. In what part of England is Oxford situated? So we say, the upper part or lower part, the fore part, a remote part, a small part, or a great part.
The people stood at the nether part of the mount. Exodus 19
3. A portion of number, separated or considered by itself as a part of the nation or congregation.
4. A portion or component particle as the component parts of a fossil or metal.
5. A portion of man as the material part or body,or the intellectual part, the soul or understanding the perishable part the immortal part.
6. A member.
All the parts were formed in his mind into one harmonious body.
7. Particular division distinct species or sort belonging to a whole as all the parts of domestic business or of a manufacture.
8. Ingredient in a mingled mass a portion in a compound.
9. That which falls to each in division share as, let me bear my part of the danger.
10. Proportional quantity as four parts of lime with three of sand.
11. Share concern interest.
Sheba said, we have no part in David. 2 Samuel 20
12. Side party interest faction.
And make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.
13. Something relating or belonging to that which concerns as for your part for his part for her part.
For my part, I have no servile end in my labor.
14. Share of labor, action or influence particular office or business.
Accuse not nature, she hath done her part,
Do thou but thine.
15. Character appropriated in a play. The parts of the comedy were judiciously cast and admirable performed.
16. Action conduct.
17. In mathematics, such a portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity. Thus 3 is a part of 12. It is the opposite of multiple.
Parts, in the plural, qualities powers faculties accomplishments.
Such licentious parts tend for the most part to the hurt of the English--
Parts, applied to place, signifies quarters, regions, districts.
When he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece. Acts 20
All parts resound with tumults, plaints and fears.
In general, parts is used for excellent or superior endowments, or more than ordinary talents. This is what we understand by the phrase, a man of parts.
In good part, as well done favorably acceptably in a friendly manner not in displeasure.
God accepteth it in good part at the hands of faithful man.ill part, as done unfavorably with displeasure.
For the most part, commonly oftener than otherwise.
In part, in some degree or extent partly.
Logical part, among schoolmen, a division of some universal as its whole in which sense, species are parts of a genus, and individuals are parts of a species.
Physical parts, are of two kinds,homogeneous and heterogeneous the first is of the same denomination the second of different ones.
Aliquot part, is a quantity which being repeated any number of times, becomes equal to an integer. Thus 6 is an aliquot part of 24.
Aliquant part, is a quantity which being repeated any number of times, becomes greater or less than the whole, as 5 is an aliquant part of 17.
Part of speech, in grammar, a sort or class of words of a particular character. Thus the noun is part of speech, denoting the names of things, or those vocal sounds which usage has attached to things. The verb is a part of speech expressing motion, action or being.
P`ART, L. partio.
1. To divide, separate or break to sever into two or more pieces.
2. To divide into shares to distribute. Acts 2
3. To separate or disunite, as things which are near each other. Ruth 1 .
4. To keep asunder to separate. A narrow sea parts England from France.
5. To separate, as combatants. Night parted the armies.
6. To secern to secrete.
The liver minds his own affair,
And parts and strains the vital juices.
7. In seamen's language, to break as, the ship parted her cables.
8. To separate metals.
P`ART, To be separated, removed or detached.
Powerful hands will not part
Easily from possession won with arms.
1. To quit each other.
He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.
2. To take or bid farewell.
3. To have a share.
They shall part alike. 1 Samuel 30
4. To go away to depart.
Thy father
Embraced me, parting for th' Etrurian land.
5. To break to be torn asunder. The cable parted.part with, to quit to resign to lose to be separated from as, to part with near friends.
Celia, for thy sake I part
With all that grew so near my heart.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Part'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/part.html.
