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Definition of Parcelled

1. parcel [v] - See also: parcel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parcelled

Literary usage of Parcelled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"The country was parcelled out into executive Districts, each of which was under the control of a taskmaster; no money revenue was demanded, but compulsory ..."

2. Pilgrimage in Europe and America, Leading to the Discovery of the Sources of by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1828)
"... who, from being always vandalized, and parcelled out into colonial fractions, often forget that they belong to that classic land which exhibits, ..."

3. Life in the forests of the Far East by Spenser St. John (1862)
"... Peace "—Poverty-stricken Gentlemen—Possessions of the Nobles The Country parcelled out among them—Distant Dependencies becoming independent—Oppression ..."

4. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1809)
"During the contest the palace was defaced and partly demolished ; and the manor appears, by the records of the. court, to have been parcelled out among the ..."

5. A History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire by Henry George Liddell (1855)
"Public Laud on the Aventine parcelled out among Plebeians. § 7. Return of Triumviri. § 8. Appointment of Decemviri: their functions: third Appius Claudius ..."

6. The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation Shewn from the State by John Leland (1819)
"The belief of a providence superintending human affairs, obtained generally among the vulgar Pagans: but the providence they acknowledged was parcelled out ..."

7. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"Here it is a simple organism which yields up its whole substance to be parcelled out among its progeny, whose escape leaves their parent an empty lifeless ..."

8. A History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire by Henry George Liddell (1855)
"... parcelled out among Plebeians. § 7. Return of Triumviri. § 8. Appointment of Decemviri: their functions: third Appius Claudius their chief. § 9. ..."

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