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Impartiality. Sir W. Temple.

The quality of being impartible; communicability. Blackstone.

Capable of being imparted or communicated.

The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed. [R.] It beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. Shak.

Jeopardy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To distribute wrongly. [Obs.] He misdeparteth riches temporal. Chaucer.

Divided into many parts; having several parts.

An outlying part. [R.] Ayliffe.

To give too important or difficult a part to. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct. [Obs.] Dryden.

A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.

Deeply divided into several portions.

A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.

A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.

The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates were nominated and the platform adopted. Among the chief articles in the platform…

A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. [Written also purpart, and pourparty.] I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.

Divided into four parts.

In four parts.

A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.

Consisting of five parts.