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The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

Of the nature of cement. [R.] Forsyth.

Same as Cespitious. [R.] Gough.

Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. [Obs.] Bailey.

Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. [Obs.] Warburton.

ts; division; also, a division or compartment. [Obs.] Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.

by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. Bacon. A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competititon. Dryden. There is no competition but for the second place. Dryden. Where competition does not act at all t…

Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.

Inflammation of the bladder.

The shedding of teeth. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

cess of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley.

Pertaining to deglutition. [R.]

Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper.

The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

Inflammation of the skin.

One skilled in dietetics. [R.]

Characterized by direption. [R.] Encyc. Dict.

With plundering violence; by violent injustice. [R.] Strype.

Relating to enstatite.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.