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Synonyms for quartered

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kwawr-terd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwɔr tərd

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Définition of quartered

Origin :
  • c.1300, "one-fourth of anything; one of four parts or divisions of a thing;" often in reference to the four parts into which a slaughtered animal is cut, from Old French quartier, cartier (12c.), from Latin quartarius "fourth part," from quartus "fourth" (see quart). One of the earliest dated references in English is to "parts of the body as dismembered during execution" (c.1300).
  • Used of the phases of the moon from early 15c. The use of quarter of an hour is attested from mid-15c. In Middle English quarter also meant "one of the four divisions of a 12-hour night" (late 14c.), and the quarter of the night meant "nine o'clock p.m." (early 14c.).
  • From late 14c. as "one of the four quadrants of the heavens;" hence, from the notion of the winds, "a side, a direction" (c.1400). In heraldry from mid-14c. as "one of the four divisions of a shield or coat of arms." The word's connection with "four" loosened in Middle English and by 15c. expressions such as six-quartered for "six-sided" are found. Meaning "region, locality, area, place" is from c.1400. Meaning "portion of a town" (identified by the class or race of people who live there) is first attested 1520s. For military sense, see quarters. As a period of time in a football game, from 1911. Quarter horse, bred strong for racing on quarter-mile tracks, first recorded 1834.
  • The coin (one fourth of a dollar) is peculiar to U.S., first recorded 1783. But quarter could mean "a farthing" in Middle English (late 14c.), and cf. British quadrant "a farthing" (c.1600), and classical Latin quadrans, the name of a coin worth a quarter of an as (the basic unit of Roman currency).
  • Quarter days (mid-15c.), designated as days when rents were paid and contracts and leases began or expired, were, in England, Lady day (March 25), Midsummer day (June 24), Michaelmas day (Sept. 29), and Christmas day (Dec. 25); in Scotland, keeping closer to the pagan Celtic calendar, they were Candlemas (Feb. 2), Whitsunday (May 15), Lammas (Aug. 1), and Martinmas (Nov. 11). Quarter in the sense "period of three months; one of the four divisions of a year" is recorded from late 14c.
  • verb divide into four equal parts
  • verb provide lodging
Example sentences :
  • I was stationed at the braces, and quartered at the long thirty-two as second loader.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Peaches should be cut in half or quartered, and the stones taken out.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Apples should be pared and quartered, gooseberries and currants should be picked and cleaned, before they are put into the batter.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • This done he locked up his prisoners in the citadel, where he himself was also quartered.
  • Extract from : « Hellenica » by Xenophon
  • The marking of the grain on the quartered lumber is very beautiful.
  • Extract from : « Trees of the Northern United States » by Austin C. Apgar
  • We passed several camps, where all sorts of regiments were quartered.
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
  • These latter were quartered among the different towns at public expense.
  • Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
  • On his way to the interior he had quartered himself upon Almayer.
  • Extract from : « An Outcast of the Islands » by Joseph Conrad
  • I knew you were here, and I exerted all my interest to get quartered near you.
  • Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever
  • He had been quartered at Cahir, I reminded him, in the year '65, and in '66 at Ballincollig.
  • Extract from : « The Making Of A Novelist » by David Christie Murray

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