Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A division into three parts.
  • noun A division by three, or the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.

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  • noun A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.

Etymologies

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Compare French tripartition.

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Examples

  • I.e. if the tripartition of earth (i.e. solid food) when eaten, which is described in VI, 5, 1, were the same tripartition which is described in VI, 3, 3-4, we should have to conclude that the former tripartition consists, like the latter, in an admixture to earth of water and fire.] [FOOTNOTE 583: 1.

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

  • To judge from a report by Plutarch, it appears that the Stoics were able to explain away this particular intuition, and also to disarm the argument for tripartition of the soul in Republic 4, which depends on the simultaneity of a desire for and an aversion to one and the same thing.

    Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

  • At first blush, the tripartition can suggest a division into beliefs, emotions, and desires.

    Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic Brown, Eric 2009

  • Republic's second general strategy to support tripartition.

    Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic Brown, Eric 2009

  • Instead of giving the Platonic tripartition of soul into reason, spirit and appetite, the text glosses Plotinus 'remark by listing Aristotle's three kinds of soul, namely reason, animal or sensitive, and vegetative or nutritive (Badawi 1947a, 20).

    The Theology of Aristotle Adamson, Peter 2008

  • Its point of departure was the combination of the Platonic-Aristotelian tri - partition of poetry and the rhetorical tripartition of

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

  • The tripartition, later used by Comte and Hegel, is rather usual.

    ENLIGHTENMENT HELLMUT O. PAPPE 1968

  • The Platonic tripartition survived, but the real division of genres followed the rhetorical tripartition of the genera dicendi — high, middle, low — exemplified by Vergil in the Aeneid, the

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

  • Hecate was called Trivia, on account of the above tripartition of Diana; her statues were set up where three roads met, and the fairy-queen in _Thomas the Rhymer_ points out to him the three roads that lead to heaven, hell, and elf-land.

    The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

  • Curiously enough, the same tripartition of the wrong attitude towards the gods occurs already in the _Republic_, ii.p. 365_d_, where it is introduced incidentally as well known and a matter of course.

    Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Ingeborg Andersen 1897

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