Definitions
To take part in or share something.
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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