| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun moiety.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (moiety) | 1. One of two (approximately) equal parts.[Wordnet]. 2. One of two basic subdivisions of a tribe.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "MOIETIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1720. (references) |
Specialty Definition: moiety
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] 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.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Law | MOIETY. The half of anything; as, if a testator bequeath one moiety of his estate to A, and the other to B, each shall take an equal part. Joint tenants are said to hold by moieties. Lit. 125; 3 M. G. & S. 274, 283. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | MOIETY. Half, but vulgarly used to signify a share or portion: as, He will come in for a small moiety. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (anthropology) Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra: The death of Antony Is not a single doom; in the name lay A moiety of the world. (references) | 2: [Noun] (chemistry) A specific segment of a molecule. Aniline has both a phenyl and an amino moiety. (references) | 3: [Noun] A share or portion. (references) | 4: [Noun] Half. 1832, The Christmas Box, edited by T. Crofton Croker: From New Holland the emu, With his better moiety, Has paid a visit to the Zoological Society. (references) |
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Common Expressions: moiety
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Lesion beyond moiety | Lesion Beyond Moiety is a civil law term used to describe the ability of a seller of immovable property to rescind that sale if the price paid for the property is less than (usually half) of the actual value of the property at the time of the sale. (references) | ||
| Moiety (Myst) | The Moiety are a group of rebels from the game Riven. They used to live peacefully with other Rivenese on the island of Riven before the island split and Gehn was trapped there. After that, the Moiety split from the Rivenese and lived in underground caves and tunnels, occasionally venturing forth to terrorize the Rivenese or destroy Gehn's machines. When Catherine (Katran) came back to Riven, she was rescued from Gehn by the Moiety, whom she lived with until she was captured by Gehn. She was torn about living with them, because her family were among those the Moiety terrorized, but she couldn't leave them for fear of being attacked by Gehn. When the age of Riven started to deteriorate, Catherine (Katran) wrote an age for the Moiety called Tay. They managed to all get off Riven just in time, before the age collapsed upon itself. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: moiety | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Moiety | 5 | Lesion beyond moiety | 3 | |
| Lesion beyond moiety | 3 | Moiety | 5 | |
| Moiety (Myst) | 2 | Moiety (Myst) | 2 | |
| Moiety conservation | 2 | Moiety conservation | 2 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
