Meanings
plural medieties
- obsoleteThe middle part; half; moiety.
[creatures] made up of man and bird: the human mediety variously placed not only above, but below
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC1 more example
The rectory of Pakefield was in medieties from a period before the Norman Conquest, each mediety having its patron, who presented to his portion upon every vacancy in succession, and not in alternate patronage;
1846, Alfred Inigo Suckling, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, page 282 - Any function that splits an interval into equal-length subintervals.
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Latinmedietās
- Middle Englishmedietee“a half”
- Englishmediety
From the late Middle English medietee (“a half”), borrowed from the Classical Latin medietās. Doublet of moiety.
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