The half; one of two equal parts; as a moiety of an estate, of goods or of profits; the moiety of a jury or of a nation.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation.
2. An indefinite part; a small part.
bisection Roget’s Thesaurus §91
N. bisection, # bipartition, dichotomy, subdichotomy, halving, dimidiation, bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication, fork, prong, fold, half, moiety
V. bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize, go halves, divide with, separate, fork, bifurcate, branch off, out, ramify
Adj. bisected, cloven, cleft, bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid, bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated, distichous, dichotomous, furcular, semi-, demi-, hemi
No Bible verses found for "moiety".