Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The middle state or part; half; moiety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The middle part; half; moiety.
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- noun obsolete The
middle part;half ;moiety .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of two (approximately) equal parts
Etymologies
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Latin medietas.
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Examples
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Clare, and in 15th Edward II. received seisin of possessions in Ireland, and a mediety of the Seneschalship of the Forest of Essex in her right?
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Richard 111. of a pordon of the Barony of Malpas, vis. a fourth of one moiety of the manor of Malpas, a moiety of another fourth; and the fourth turn of the presentation to one mediety of the rectory.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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