Obs. Also 6–7 -partener. A partner along with others, a COPARTNER.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1684), II. 437. Gardiner and his compartners.
1564. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees), 216. I being his compartener.
1645. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xi. (1657), 103. The soul … is the bodies compartner.
1701. Beverley, Apoc. Quest., 18. Ephraim, the Compartner … to Dan in Idolatry.
Hence † Compartnership = COPARTNERSHIP.
1634. Ford, P. Warbeck, IV. ii. My wife’s compartnership.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 239. Whether you shall become poor by suertiship, compartnership, etc.
