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Partnership in power; equal share of authority. [Obs.] Beauté ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness, Ne may with Venus holde champartye. Chaucer.

Divisible. [Obs.] Bacon.

To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. [R.] Shak.

rformance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert gentleman. Shak. What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert Tennison.

In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.

Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.

Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical. [Obs.] Hyperthetical or superlative . . . expression. Chapman.

That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.

Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.

Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.

A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

The condition or quality of being impertnent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.

Impertinence. [R.] O, matter and impertinency mixed! Reason in madness! Shak.

Not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable. Things that are impertinent to us. Tillotson. How impertinent that grief was which served no end! Jer. Taylor.

In an impertinent manner. "Not to betray myself impertinently." B. Jonson.

The quality or state of being impertransible. [R.]

Incapable of being passed through. [R.]

The state or quality of being imperturbable. [1913 Webster]

Incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted; as, imperturbable gravity.

In an imperturbable manner; calmly. C. Bronté.