▪ I. parti-1
(also † partie-), extended use of the first element in parti-coloured, earlier partie-coloured, after which Shakespeare has † ˈpartie-coated, having a party-coat, i.e. a parti-coloured or motley coat. So, in later use: ˈparti-ˌdecorated, decorated part in one way, part in another; † ˈparti-ˌmembered, having members or limbs of two kinds; † ˈparti-named, having diverse names.
| 1638 Sir J. Beaumont in Jonsonus Virbius, When hereto⁓fore, the Vice's only note, And sign from virtue was his *party⁓coat. |
| 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 776 As Loue is..Varying in subiects as the eie doth roule, To euerie varied obiect in his glance: Which *partie-coated presence of loose loue Put on by vs [etc.]. |
| 1894 Westm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 7/1 One finds the drawing-room *parti-decorated: one half is adorned with sporting pictures..the other presents a Scriptural text and other signs of sanctity. |
| 1641 Milton Ch. Govt. i. v. Wks. (1851) 119 So was Jereboams Episcopacy partly from the patterne of the law, and partly from the patterne of his owne carnality; a parti-colour'd and a *parti-member'd Episcopacy. |
| 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 149 Though the meat be particoloured, or *party named, yet the ground and meate is Pelo and no other. |
▪ II. parti-2 combining form of L.
pars,
part-em,
part; as in
parti-ˈpartial a. (
Logic), applied by Sir W. Hamilton to a proposition in which both terms are partial or particular;
parti-ˈtotal, in which one term is particular and the other universal.
| 1833 Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 162, iii. Parti-total—Some is all. Ibid. 162, iv. Parti-partial—Some is some. |