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Definition of Partake

1. Verb. Have some of the qualities or attributes of something.

2. Verb. Have, give, or receive a share of. "We shared the cake"

3. Verb. Consume. "They partake more bread"; "She didn't touch her food all night"

Definition of Partake

1. v. i. 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.

2. v. t. To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share.

Definition of Partake

1. Verb. (intransitive formal) To take part in an activity; to participate ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To share (of) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Partake

1. to participate [v -TOOK, -TAKEN, -TAKING, -TAKES] - See also: participate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Partake

part-time bowlers part-timer part-timers part and parcel part company part music part name part of speech part song part to whole relation

part with partable partaga partage partages partake (current term) partake in partaken partaker partakers

partakes partaking partan partans partay partays parted parted leaf partenope parter

Literary usage of Partake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Better let them partake it, than the foe ! So at first daybreak mailed all in arms We raise our cry of battle in their midst; And ill for him, ..."

2. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"... we all have benefit of the same ordinances, all partake i John i. 7. Church. If we walk in the light, we have fellowship one ..."

3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... and Asher in his breaches, that is, creeks on the seashore. Bread. To treat bread. To partake of food. Common in Scripture language. Snaking of bread. ..."

4. A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1808)
"But they do not always partake of all their reputed imperfections. The want of knowledge, which was reckoned among the failings of the men, can have no room ..."

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