partie

Etymology

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of party.
   So that if a man be excōmunicate in any of their Courts for a thing which apperteyneth to the Royal Maiest. that is to say (sayeth that booke) in a matter of the common lawe, the partie excommunicate shall haue a premunire facias, and so was it adjudged. [1590?], [James Morice], A Briefe Treatise of Oathes Exacted by Ordinaries and Ecclesiasticall Iudges, to Answere Generallie to All Such Articles or Interrogatories, as Pleaseth Them to Propound. And of Their Forced and Constrained Oathes Ex Officio, Wherein Is Proued That the Same Are Vnlawfull., [Middelburg: […]Richard Schilders], page 49
   1598, Lancelot Andrewes, sermon preached in the Parish Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London So there is a resemblance between the partie that here gives licence to come to the tree of life, and the other that forbid to come to it. The one threatned with a sword; the other promiseth to the persons that keep the condition here expressed
   Now Indignation is a fire, ſaith the Prophet, it will vexe the partie whom it malignes, as fire vexeth the rawe fleſh in the roſting or boyling. 1607, William [Barlow], A Brand, Titio Erepta.[…], London: […] Iohn Windet for Mathew Law
   The Bashaw notwithstanding drew together a partie of five hundred before his owne Pallace, where he intended to die […]. 1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 44