English

Verb

compart ‎(third-person singular simple present comparts, present participle comparting, simple past and past participle comparted)

1. (obsolete) To divide and share with others.
2. To divide into smaller parts; to divide into compartments.
   • 1880, Lewis Wallace, Ben-Hur (Harper & Brothers)

     The walls were panelled; each panel was comparted like a modern office desk, and each compartment crowded with labelled folios all filemot with age and use.

3. To arrange or lay out according to a plan, with due distribution and disposition of parts.

   If I behold what inventions men have in comparting Musical intervals...

References

• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.