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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[LL.

compartitio

The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment.

[Obs.]

Their temples . . . needed no

compartitions

Sir H. Wotton.

, 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.

Division; part divided; a separate part; as, amphitheaters needed no compartitions.

compartition ‎(countable and uncountable, plural compartitions)

(obsolete) The act of dividing into parts or compartments.
(obsolete) A division or compartment.
Their temples […] needed no compartitions. — Sir H. Wotton.