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partake

verb
/pɑɹˈteɪk/US/pɑːˈteɪk/UK

Etymology

Back-formation from Middle English part-takinge, part-takynge (“a sharing; partaking”), a calque of Latin particeps (“participating”); equivalent to part + take. Compare take part. In the sense of taking a share or portion of something, displaced native Old English onbītan (“to taste of, to partake of”).

  1. derived from part-takinge

Definitions

  1. To take part in an activity

    To take part in an activity; to participate.

    • Brutes partake in this faculty.

  2. To take a share or portion.

    • Will you partake of some food?
    • The steak and chips partaken of for lunch seemed now to belong to another decade. He regretfully recognized the fact that he would not make a success of a hunger strike.

  3. To have something of the properties, character, or office.

    • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers the Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster , who partakes of both qualities, partly of a judge in the court, and partly of an attorney-general
    • The people are encouraged to perceive their liberation in historic terms and to trust that new events will partake of past glories.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA