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Partake

//pɑɹˈteɪk// verb

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

    "Brutes partake in this faculty."

  2. 2
    consume wordnet
  3. 3
    To take a share or portion. formal, intransitive

    "Will you partake of some food?"

  4. 4
    have, give, or receive a share of wordnet
  5. 5
    To have something of the properties, character, or office. archaic, intransitive

    "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"

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  1. 6
    have some of the qualities or attributes of something wordnet

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”).

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