[f. L. tripartītus: see TRIPARTITE a. and -TION.] Division into three parts; partition among three; † Arith. division by three (obs.).
1652. Sparke, Prim. Devot. (1663), 293. St. Augustine giveth another and very proper tripartition.
1691. trans. Emilianne’s Frauds Rom. Monks (ed. 3), 103. He divided the vast Revenues of his Abby into three parts…. Almost all the Abbots of France, Germany and Italy … made a Tripartition of the Revenues of their Abbies.
1853. Th. Ross, Humboldt’s Trav., III. xxxii. 309. The tripartition of the Cordilleras, and … the spreading of their branches.
1908. J. Massie, in Daily Chron., 14 May, 4/4. It is the principle of this Bill—its tripartition of Irish University education—that I do not like.
