[n. of action f. bipartīre: see prec. and -TION.] Division into two parts; (viewed either as action or result).
1652. Sparke, Prim. Devot. (1663), 321. These imitating fire … may easily be conceived to spread into a bipartation.
1684. T. Burnet, Th. Earth, 284. The form, qualities, and Legisl. xviii. § 1 note, Done in the way of bipartition, dibipartition of the primæval earth.
1865. W. G. Palgrave, Arabia, I. 352. The fact of the great bipartition of the Arab race is certain.
