Meaning of partake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To take part in an activity; to participate.
   formal, intransitive
2. To take a share or portion.
   formal, intransitive
3. Archaic To take or have a part in; share in.
   Archaic
4. To have something of the properties, character, or office.
   archaic, intransitive
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6. To take or have a part or share; participate: partake in the celebration.
7. To take or be given part or portion: The guests partook of a delicious dinner.
8. To share some of the properties of something else: "Each tale partakes of its creator's poetic imagination" (Charles Scribner III).
9. (foll by in) to have a share; participate: to partake in the excitement.
10. (Cookery) (foll by of) to take or receive a portion, esp of food or drink: each partook of the food offered to him.
11. (foll by of) to suggest or have some of the quality (of): music partaking of sadness.
12. (tr) archaic to share in
    tr
13. to take part in along with others (usu. fol. by in): to partake in a celebration.
    in

Equivalents

Examples

“Brutes partake in this faculty.”

“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.”

“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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