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Webster 1913 Edition
Purparty
Pur′parˊty
,Noun.
[OF.
pourpartie
; pour
for + partie
a part; cf. OF. purpart
a respective part.] (Law)
A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.
[Written also
purpart
, and pourparty
.] I am forced to eat all the game of your
purparties
, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.
Webster 1828 Edition
Purparty
PUR'PARTY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
purparty
purparty
English
Alternative forms
- pourparty
- purpart
Noun
purparty (plural purparties)
- (law) A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.
- 1793 October 6, Horace Walpole, letter to “the Miss Berrys” (sisters Mary and Agnes Berry),
- I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds.
- 1793 October 6, Horace Walpole, letter to “the Miss Berrys” (sisters Mary and Agnes Berry),
References
- purparty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913