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adjective

Piecemeal adj. Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts."

adverb

Piecemeal adv.

In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." "The beasts will tear thee piecemeal."

Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. "Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that."

noun

Piecemeal n. A fragment; a scrap.

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Etymology of 'Piecemeal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Piecemeal" Quotes from Famous Books

... indeed go on to ascertain or to compute indefinitely if we have patience; but it would contradict the definition of an infinite number to suppose the endless series of them to have actually counted themselves out piecemeal. Zeno made this manifest; so the infinity which our intellect requires of the sense-datum is thus a future and potential rather than a past and actual infinity of structure. The datum after it has made itself must be ...

— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James

... "It's them fellows down at the Landing trying to get a rise out of me. Or if it ain't that, it's some guy comin' in next spring, and sendin' in his outfit piecemeal ahead of him. And me powerless to protect myself! Ain't that an outrage! But when I meet him on the trail ...

— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner

... upon all sides of it, but the utmost delicacy of the controls would not permit of holding even upon the immense bulk of the vessel, to say nothing of holding upon such a relatively tiny object as the power bar. As they flashed repeatedly through the warship, they saw piecemeal and sketchily her formidable armament and the hundreds of men of her crew, each man at battle station at the controls of some frightful engine of destruction. Suddenly they were cut off as a screen closed behind them—the Earth-men felt an ...

— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith

... and the faith he swore, Who takes Troy's gods the partners of his flight, And erst from Troy his aged parent bore. O, had I torn him piecemeal, as I might, And strewn him on the waves, and slain outright His friends, and for the father's banquet spread The murdered boy! But doubtful were the fight. Grant that it had been, whom should Dido dread, What fear had death for me, self-destined ...

— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil

... his fine proportions, the courtesy of his bending to Clara and touching of her hand, excused a fanatical excess of admiration on the part of a woman in her youth, who is never the anatomist of the hero's lordly graces. But now she admired him piecemeal. When it came to the putting of him together, she did it coldly. To compassionate him was her utmost warmth. Without conceiving in him anything of the strange old monster of earth which had struck the awakened girl's mind of Miss ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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