King James Bible Dictionary

P'ART, noun [Latin pars, partis.]

1. A portion, piece or fragment separated from a whole thing; as, to divide an orange into five parts.

2. A portion or quantity of a thing not separated in fact, but considered or mentioned by itself. In what part of England is Oxford situated? So we say, the upper part or lower part the fore part a remote part a small part or a great part

The people stood at the nether part of the mount. Exodus 19:17.

3. A portion of number, separated or considered by itself; as a part of the nation or congregation.

4. A portion or component particle; as the component parts of a fossil or metal.

5. A portion of man; as the material part or body, or the intellectual part the soul or understanding; the perishable part; the immortal part

6. A member.

All the parts were formed in his mind into one harmonious body.

7. Particular division; distinct species or sort belonging to a whole; as all the parts of domestic business or of a manufacture.

8. Ingredient in a mingled mass; a portion in a compound.

9. That which falls to each in division; share; as, let me bear my part of the danger.

10. Proportional quantity; as four parts of lime with three of sand.

11. Share; concern; interest.

Sheba said, we have no part in David. 2 Samuel 20:1.

12. Side; party; interest; faction.

And make whole kingdoms take her brother's part

13. Something relating or belonging to; that which concerns; as for your part; for his part; for her part

For my part I have no servile end in my labor.

14. Share of labor, action or influence; particular office or business.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part

Do thou but thine.

15. Character appropriated in a play. The parts of the comedy were judiciously cast and admirable performed.

16. Action; conduct.

17. In mathematics, such a portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity. Thus 3 is a part of 12. It is the opposite of multiple.

Parts, in the plural, qualities; powers; faculties; accomplishments.

Such licentious parts tend for the most part to the hurt of the English--

Parts, applied to place, signifies quarters, regions, districts.

When he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece. Acts 20:2.

All parts resound with tumults, plaints and fears.

In general, parts is used for excellent or superior endowments, or more than ordinary talents. This is what we understand by the phrase, a man of parts.

In good part as well done; favorably; acceptably; in a friendly manner; not in displeasure.

God accepteth it in good part at the hands of faithful man.ill part as ill done; unfavorably; with displeasure.

For the most part commonly; oftener than otherwise.

In part in some degree or extent; partly.

Logical part among schoolmen, a division of some universal as its whole; in which sense, species are parts of a genus, and individuals are parts of a species.

Physical parts, are of two kinds, homogeneous and heterogeneous; the first is of the same denomination; the second of different ones.

Aliquot part is a quantity which being repeated any number of times, becomes equal to an integer. Thus 6 is an aliquot part of 24.

Aliquant part is a quantity which being repeated any number of times, becomes greater or less than the whole, as 5 is an aliquant part of 17.

Part of speech, in grammar, a sort or class of words of a particular character. Thus the noun is part of speech, denoting the names of things, or those vocal sounds which usage has attached to things. The verb is a part of speech expressing motion, action or being.

P'ART, verb transitive [Latin partio.]

1. To divide, separate or break; to sever into two or more pieces.

2. To divide into shares; to distribute. Acts 2:45.

3. To separate or disunite, as things which are near each other. Ruth 1:17.

4. To keep asunder; to separate. A narrow sea parts England from France.

5. To separate, as combatants. Night parted the armies.

6. To secern; to secrete.

The liver minds his own affair,

And parts and strains the vital juices.

7. In seamen's language, to break; as, the ship parted her cables.

8. To separate metals.

P'ART, verb intransitive To be separated, removed or detached.

Powerful hands will not part

Easily from possession won with arms.

1. To quit each other.

He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.

2. To take or bid farewell.

3. To have a share.

They shall part alike. 1 Samuel 30:24.

4. To go away; to depart.

Thy father

Embraced me, parting for th' Etrurian land.

5. To break; to be torn asunder. The cable parted.part with, to quit; to resign; to lose; to be separated from; as, to part with near friends.

Celia, for thy sake I part

With all that grew so near my heart.

PARTABLE. [See Partible.]

P'ARTAGE, noun Division; severance; the act of dividing or sharing; a French word. [Little used.]

PARTA'KE, verb intransitive preterit tense partook; participle passive partaken. [part and take.]

1. To take a part, portion or share in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; usually followed by of, sometimes less properly by in. All men partake of the common bounties of Providence. Clodius was at the feast, but could not partake of the enjoyments.

2. To have something of the property, nature, claim or right.

The attorney of the duchy of Lancaster partakes partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney general.

3. To be admitted; not to be excluded.

PARTA'KE, verb transitive To have a part in; to share.

My royal father lives;

Let every one partake the general joy.

[This is probably elliptical, of being omitted.]

1. To admit to a part. [Not used.]

PARTA'KEN, participle passive Shared with others; participated.

PARTA'KER, noun One who has or takes a part, share or portion in common with others; a sharer; a participator; usually followed by of.

If the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things-- Romans 15:27.

Sometimes followed by in.

Wish me partaker in thy happiness--

If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Matthew 23:30.

1. An accomplice; an associate.

When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Psalms 50:18.

PARTA'KING, participle present tense Sharing with others; participating.

PARTA'KING, noun An associating; combination in an evil design.

P'ARTED, participle passive Separated; divided; severed.

P'ARTER, noun One that parts or separates.

PARTERRE, noun parta're. In gardening, a level division of ground furnished with evergreens and flowers; sometimes cut into shell and scroll work with alleys.

Were present in Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 2:9). Parthia lay on the east of Media and south of Hyrcania, which separated it from the Caspian Sea. It corresponded with the western half of the modern Khorasan, and now forms a part of Persia.

The inhabitants of Parthia, a country northwest of Persia.
Acts 2:9

This name occurs only in (Acts 2:9) where it designates Jews settled in Parthia. Parthia proper was the region stretching along the southern flank of the mountains which separate the great Persian desert from the desert of Kharesm. It lay south of Hyrcania, east of Media and north of Sagartia. The ancient Parthians are called a "Scythic" race, and probably belonged to the great Turanian family. After being subject in succession to the Persians and the Seleucid', they revolted in B.C. 256. and under Arsaces succeeded in establishing their independence. Parthia, in the mind of the writer of the Acts, would designate this empire, which extended from India to the Tigris and from the Chorasmian desert to the shores of the Southern Ocean; hence the prominent position of the name Parthians in the list of those prevent at Pentecost. Parthia was a power almost rivalling Rome

the only existing power which had tried its strength against Rome and not been worsted in the encounter. The Parthian dominion lasted for nearly five centuries, commencing in the third century before and terminating in the third century after our era. The Parthians spoke the Persian language.

P'ARTIAL, adjective [Latin pars.]

1. Biased to one party; inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more than the other; not indifferent. It is important to justice that a judge should not be partial

Self-love will make men partial to themselves and friends.

2. Inclined to favor without reason. Authors are partial to their wit, and critics to their judgment.

3. Affecting a part only; not general or universal; not total. It has been much disputed whether the deluge was partial or total.

All partial evil, universal good.

4. More strongly inclined to one thing than to others. [Colloquial.]

5. In botany, subordinate; applied to subdivisions; as a partial umbel or umbellicle; a partial peduncle. A partial involucre is placed at the foot of a partial umbel.

P'ARTIALIST, noun One who is partial. [Unusual.]

Among brethren forbidden
1 Timothy 5:21

Of parents for particular children
Parents

Its effect on other children
Genesis 37:4

PARTIALITY, noun parshal'ity. Inclination to favor one party or one side of a question more than the other; an undue bias of mind towards one party or side, which is apt to warp the judgment. partiality springs from the will and affections, rather than from a love of truth and justice.

1. A stronger inclination to one thing than to others; as a partiality for poetry or painting; a colloquial use.

P'ARTIALIZE, verb transitive To render partial. [Not used.]

P'ARTIALLY, adverb With undue bias of mind to one party or side; with unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge partially

1. In part; not totally; as, the story may be partially true; the body may be partially affected with disease; the sun and moon are often partially eclipsed.

PARTIBILITY, noun [See Partible.] Susceptibility of division, partition or severance; separability; as the partibility of an inheritance.

P'ARTIBLE, adjective Divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible

General references
2 John 1:11
Collusion

PARTIC'IPABLE, adjective [See Participate.] That may be participated or shared.

PARTIC'IPANT, adjective [See Participate.] Sharing; having a share or part; followed by of.

The prince saw he should confer with one participant of more than monkish speculations.

PARTIC'IPANT, noun A partaker; one having a share or part.

PARTIC'IPATE, verb intransitive [Latin participo; pars, part, and capio, to take.]

1. To partake; to have a share in common with others. The heart of sensibility participates in the sufferings of a friend. It is sometimes followed by of.

He would participate of their wants.

2. To have part of more things than one.

Few creatures participate of the nature of plants and metals both.

PARTIC'IPATE, verb intransitive To partake; to share; to receive a part of.

Fellowship

Such as I seek, fit to participate

All rational delight--

PARTIC'IPATED, participle passive Shared in common with others; partaken.

PARTIC'IPATING, participle present tense Having a part or share; partaking.

PARTICIPA'TION, noun The state of sharing in common with others; as a participation of joys or sorrows.

1. The act or state of receiving or having part of something.

Those deities are so by participation and subordinate to the Supreme.

2. Distribution; division into shares.

PARTIC'IPATIVE, adjective Capable of participating.

PARTICIP'IAL, adjective [Latin participialis. See Participle.]

1. Having the nature and use of a participle.

2. Formed from a participle; as a participial noun.

PARTICIP'IALLY, adverb In the sense or manner of a participle.

P'ARTICIPLE, noun [Latin participium, from participo; pars, part, and capio, to take.]

1. In grammar, a word so called because it partakes of the properties of a noun and of a verb; as having, making, in English; habens, faciens, in Latin. The English participles having, making, become nouns by prefixing the to them; as the having of property; the making of instruments. But all participles do not partake of the properties of a noun, as the passive participles for example, had, made.

Participles sometimes lose the properties of a verb and become adjectives, as willing, in the phrase, a willing heart; engaging, as engaging manners; accomplished, as an accomplished orator.

2. Any thing that participates of different things. [Not used.]

P'ARTICLE, noun [Latin particula, from pars, part.]

1. A minute part or portion of matter; as a particle of sand, of lime or of light.

2. In physics, a minute part of a body, an aggregation or collection of which constitutes the whole body or mass. The word is sometimes used in the same sense as atom, in the ancient Epicurean philosophy, and corpuscle in the latter. In this sense, particles are the elements or constituent parts of bodies.

3. Any very small portion or part; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue; he would not resign a particle of his property.

4. In the Latin church, a crumb or little piece of consecrated bread.

5. In grammar, a word that is not varied or inflected; as a preposition.

Organic particles, very minute moving bodies, perceptible only by the help of the microscope, discovered in the semen of animals.

PARTIC'ULAR, adjective [Low Latin particularis, from particula.]

1. Pertaining to a single person or thing; not general; as, this remark has a particular application.

2. Individual; noting or designating a single thing by way of distinction. Each plant has its particular nutriment. Most persons have a particular trait of character. He alludes to a particular person.

3. Noting some property or thing peculiar.

Of this prince there is little particular memory.

4. Attentive to things single or distinct; minute. I have been particular in examining the reasons of this law.

5. Single; not general.

6. Odd; singular; having something that eminently distinguishes one from others.

7. Singularly nice in taste; as a man very particular in his diet or dress.

8. Special; more than ordinary. He has brought no particular news.

9. Containing a part only; as a particular estate, precedent to the estate in remainder.

10. Holding a particular estate; as a particular tenant.

PARTIC'ULAR, noun A single instance; a single point.

I must reserve some particulars, which it is not lawful for me to reveal.

1. A distinct, separate or minute part; as, he told me all the particulars of the story.

2. An individual; a private person.

3. Private interest; as, they apply their minds to those branches of public prayer, wherein their own particular is moved. [Not in use.]

4. Private character; state of an individual.

For his particular I will receive him gladly. [Not in use.]

5. A minute detail of things singly enumerated.

The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. [Not in use.]

In particular specially; peculiarly; distinctly.

This, in particular happens to the lungs.

PARTICULAR'ITY, noun Distinct notice or specification of particulars.

--Even descending to particularities, what kingdoms he should overcome.

1. Singleness; individuality; single act; single case.

2. Petty account; minute incident.

To see the titles that were most agreeable to such an emperor--with the like particularities--

3. Something belonging to single persons.

4. Something peculiar or singular.

I saw an old heathen altar with this particularity that it was hollowed like a dish at one end, but not the end on which the sacrifice was laid.

5. Minuteness in detail. He related the story with great particularity

PARTIC'ULARIZE, verb transitive To mention distinctly or in particulars; to enumerate or specify in detail.

He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.

PARTIC'ULARIZE, verb intransitive To be attentive to single things.

PARTIC'ULARLY, adverb Distinctly; singly.

1. In an especial manner.

This exact propriety of Virgil I particularly regarded as a great part of his character.

PARTICULATE, to mention, is not in use.

P'ARTING, participle present tense [from part.] Dividing; separating; breaking in pieces.

1. adjective Given at separation; as a parting kiss or look.

2. Departing; declining; as the parting day.

P'ARTING, noun Division; separation. Ezekiel 21:21.

1. In chimistry, an operation by which gold and silver are separated from each other by different menstruums.

2. In seamen's language, the breaking of a cable by violence.

P'ARTISAN, noun s as z.

1. An adherent to a party or faction.

2. In war, the commander of a party or detachment of troops, sent on a special enterprise hence,

3. By way of distinction, a person able in commanding a party, or dexterous in obtaining intelligence, intercepting convoys or otherwise annoying an enemy.

4. A commander's leading staff.

5. A kind of halbert.

P'ARTITE, adjective [Latin partitus, from partio, to divide. See Part.]

In botany, divided. A partite leaf is a simple leaf separated down to the base.

PARTI'TION, noun [Latin partitio, from partio, to divide.]

1. The act of dividing, or state of being divided.

2. Division; separation; distinction.

And good from bad find no partition

3. Separate part; as lodged in a small partition

4. That by which different parts are separated; as a partition of wood or stone in a building.

5. Part where separation is made.

No sight could pass

Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.

6. Division of an estate into severalty, which is done by deed of partition

P'ARTI'TION, verb transitive To divide into distinct parts; as, to partition the floor of a house.

1. To divide into shares; as, to partition an estate.

P'ARTITIVE, adjective In grammar, distributive; as a noun partitive

P'ARTITIVELY, adverb In a partitive manner; distributively.

P'ARTLET, noun [from part.] A ruff; a band or collar for the neck.

1. A hen.

P'ARTLY, adverb In part; in some measure or degree; not wholly.

P'ARTNER, noun [from part.] One who partakes or shares with another; a partaker; an associate; as, she is partner of my life, of my joys, of my griefs.

Those of the race of Shem were no partners in the unbelieving work of the tower.

1. An associate in any business or occupation; a joint owner of stock or capital, employed in commerce, manufactures or other business. Men are sometimes partners in a single voyage or adventure, sometimes in a firm or standing company.

2. One who dances with another, either male or female, as in a contra dance.

3. A husband or wife.

P'ARTNER, verb transitive To join; to associate with a partner [Little used.]

Partners, in a ship, pieces of plank nailed round the scuttles in a deck where the masts are placed; also, the scuttles themselves.

With God
1 Corinthians 3:7; 1 Corinthians 3:9; 2 Corinthians 6:1; Philippians 2:13
Providence

P'ARTNERSHIP, noun The association of two or more persons for the purpose of undertaking and prosecuting any business, particularly trade or manufactures, at their joint expense. In this case, the connection is formed by contract; each partner furnishing a part of the capital stock and being entitled to a proportional share of profit, or subject to a proportional share of loss; or one or more of the partners may furnish money or stock, and the other or others contribute their services. The duration of the partnership may be limited by the contract, or it may be left indefinite, subject to be dissolved by mutual agreement. A partnership or association of this kind is a standing or permanent company, and is denominated a firm or house. We say, A and B entered into partnership for the importation and sale of goods, or for manufacturing cotton or glass.

Partnerships may be and usually are associations of private persons, not incorporated. In other cases, the company is incorporated. Banking companies in the United States are usually incorporated, and are essentially partnerships, but do not bear that name. Manufacturing companies are also frequently incorporated.

1. Joint interest or property.

PARTOOK', preterit tense of partake.

(Heb. kore, i.e., "caller"). This bird, unlike our own partridge, is distinguished by "its ringing call-note, which in early morning echoes from cliff to cliff amidst the barrenness of the wilderness of Judea and the glens of the forest of Carmel" hence its Hebrew name. This name occurs only twice in Scripture.

In 1 Samuel 26:20 "David alludes to the mode of chase practised now, as of old, when the partridge, continuously chased, was at length, when fatigued, knocked down by sticks thrown along the ground." It endeavours to save itself "by running, in preference to flight, unless when suddenly started. It is not an inhabitant of the plain or the corn-field, but of rocky hill-sides" (Tristram's Nat. Hist.).

In Jeremiah 17:11 the prophet is illustrating the fact that riches unlawfully acquired are precarious and short-lived. The exact nature of the illustration cannot be precisely determined. Some interpret the words as meaning that the covetous man will be as surely disappointed as the partridge which gathers in eggs, not of her own laying, and is unable to hatch them; others (Tristram), with more probability, as denoting that the man who enriches himself by unjust means "will as surely be disappointed as the partridge which commences to sit, but is speedily robbed of her hopes of a brood" by her eggs being stolen away from her.

The commonest partridge in Palestine is the Caccabis saxatilis, the Greek partridge. The partridge of the wilderness (Ammo-perdix heyi) is a smaller species. Both are essentially mountain and rock birds, thus differing from the English partridge, which loves cultivated fields.

1 Samuel 26:20
Jeremiah 17:11

(Heb. kore) occurs only (1 Samuel 26:20) and Jeremiah 17:11 The "hunting this bird upon the mountains," (1 Samuel 26:20) entirely agrees with the habits of two well-known species of partridge, viz. Caccabis saxatilis , the Greek partridge (which is the commonest partridge of the holy land), and Ammoperdix heyii . Our common partridge, Perdix cinerea , does not occur in Palestine. (The Greek partridge somewhat resembles our red-legged partridge in plumage, but is much larger. In every part of the hill country it abounds, and its ringing call-note in early morning echoes from cliff to cliff alike amid the barrenness of the hills of Judea and in the glens of the forest of Carmel. Tristram's Nat. Hist. of Bible . The flesh of the partridge and the eggs are highly esteemed as food, and the search for the eggs at the proper time of the year is made a regular business.-ED.)

P'ARTRIDGE, noun [Latin perdix.] A wild fowl of the genus Tatrao. Latham arranges the partridge and quail in a genus under the name of Perdix, and assigns the grous to the genus Tetrao. The partridge is esteemed a great delicacy at the table.

The term partridge is applied in Pennsylvania to the bird called quail in New England, a peculiar species of Perdix; in New England it is applied to the ruffed grous, a species of Tetrao.

PARTU'RIATE, verb intransitive [Latin parturio, from partus, birth, from pario, to bear.] To bring forth young. [Little used.]

PARTU'RIENT, adjective [Latin parturiens.] Bringing forth or about to bring forth young.

PARTURI'TION, noun [Latin parturio.] The act of bringing forth or being delivered of young.

P'ARTY, noun [Latin pars. See Part.]

1. A number of persons united in opinion or design, in opposition to others in the community. It differs from faction, in implying a less dishonorable association, or more justifiable designs. Parties exist in all governments; and free governments are the hot-beds of party Formerly, the political parties in England were called whigs and tories.

2. One of two litigants; the plaintiff or defendant in a lawsuit.

The cause of both parties shall come before the judges. Exodus 22:1.

3. One concerned or interested in an affair. This man was not a party to the trespass or affray. He is not a party to the contract or agreement.

4. Side; persons engaged against each other.

The peace both parties want, is like to last.

Small parties make up in diligence what they want in numbers.

5. Cause; side.

Aegle came in to make their party good.

6. A select company invited to an entertainment; as a dining party a tea party an evening party

7. A single person distinct from or opposed to another.

If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony,

8. In military affairs, a detachment or small number of troops sent on a particular duty, as to intercept the enemy's convoy, to reconnoiter, to seek forage, to flank the enemy, etc.is used to qualify other words and may be considered either as part of a compound word, or as an adjective; as party man, party rage, party disputes, etc.

P'ARTY-COLORED, adjective Having divers colors; as a party-colored plume; a party-colored flower.

P'ARTY-JURY, noun A jury consisting of half natives and half foreigners.

P'ARTY-MAN, noun One of a party; usually, a factious man; a man of violent party principles; an abettor of a party.

P'ARTY-SPIRIT, noun The spirit that supports a party.

P'ARTY-WALL, noun A wall that separates one house from the next.