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Definition of Fourth part
1. Noun. One of four equal parts. "A quarter of a pound"
Generic synonyms: Common Fraction, Simple Fraction
Derivative terms: Quarter, Quarter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fourth Part
Literary usage of Fourth part
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Universal Etymological English Dictionary:: Containing an Additional ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"QUARTER [quartier, F. cuarta .pari, L-] the fourth Part of any Thing. QUARTER <-fa
Hundred [in Weight, Avcr-du-pt>ii\ is 28 Pounds. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... share of each individual was four times as considerable, a fourth part only
of the modem taxes of France was levied on the Imperial province of Gaul. ..."
3. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1889)
"(trustees for sale of the remaining one undivided fourth part), of the third
part, and IK, of, &c. (purchaser), of the fourth part: WHEREAS XY, late of, ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"black blood only in a fourth part. Modern ; and imported from I America. ...
Formed with suffixes -er- and -on from cuarto, a fourth part. ..."
5. The Law Reports by Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Wirgman Hemming (1872)
"... interest, and annual income of such residue; and that, subject thereto, such
residue is unappointed, and belongs, as to one fourth part, to the estate ..."
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