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/pɑrtˈeɪk/ Listen

verb

partake v. t. (past partook; past part. partaken; pres. part. partaking)

To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share. "Let every one partake the general joy."

To admit to a share; to cause to participate; to give a part to. (Obs.)

To distribute; to communicate. (Obs.)

Partake v. i. (past partook; past part. partaken; pres. part. partaking)

To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others. "Brutes partake in this faculty." "When I against myself with thee partake."

To have something of the properties, character, or office; usually followed by of. "The attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster partakes partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney-general."

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"Partake" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the wind-seller, and let none of the men have excess to the strong bear — don't forget to have the gate shit every evening be dark — The gardnir and the hind may lie below in the landry, to partake the house, with the blunderbuss and the great dog; and hope you'll have a watchful eye over the maids. I know that hussy Mary Jones, loves to be rumping with the men. Let me know Alderney's calf be sould yet, and what ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... artistically molded bronze brazier, the refined descendant of the cruder hearth. In Polynesia as in Japan one seats oneself anywhere in tailor-fashion upon the floor, and upon this floor the meals are served, and here one sleeps at night, nor will the women partake of food in the presence of the men. In essential fundamental things of life the Japanese show their kinship in custom and tradition to the insular peoples of Asiatic origin now occupying the Pacific, and if Japan has attained ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... am to find that you partake of my great aversion to the sort of puffery belonging to literature. I hate it! and always did, and love you all the better for partaking of my feeling on the subject. I believe that with me it is pride that revolts at the trash. ...

— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... can see little more than verbal confusion. To commence with Canon Green, which will also cover much that Prof. Sorley says on the same point. When we are told man must choose virtue freely in order that what he does shall partake of the character of morality, it is plain that he is using the word "forced" in two senses. In the one sense force may mean no more than a determinant. Thus we may say that our sympathies force us to act in such and such a way. Or the religious man may say that the love of God forces him ...

— Theism or Atheism - The Great Alternative • Chapman Cohen

... Edward; "yet we should be careful. Although all around me drink, I have until this moment abstained from the use of brandy; but now, at your request, I partake of it. Remember, if I, by this act, am led into habits of intemperance, if I meet a drunkard's grave, the blame will rest ...

— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams

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