-And kept back part of the price, . . . and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles'feet. Acts v. 2.
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-Our ideas of extension and number -- do they not contain a secret relation of the parts ? Locke.
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-I am a part of all that I have met. Tennyson.
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2. Hence, specifically: (a)
An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient.
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-An homer is the tenth part of an ephah. Ex. xvi. 36.
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1.
To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. Thou shalt part it in pieces. Lev. ii. 6.
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-There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues. Keble.
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2.
To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.
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-To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee. Pope.
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-They parted my raiment among them. John xix. 24.
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3.
To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
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-The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. Ruth i. 17.
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-While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. Luke xxiv. 51.
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2.
To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from.
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-He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted. Shak.
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-He owned that he had parted from the duke only a few hours before. Macaulay.
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-His precious bag, which he would by no means part from. G. Eliot.
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3.
To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from; as, to part with one's money.
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