Lexic.us

Definition of Partake in

1. Verb. Be active in.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Partake In

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 partake in (current term) partaken partaker partakers partakes

partaking partan partans partay partays parted parted leaf partenope parter parterre

Literary usage of Partake in

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

1. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1855)
"In this retirement, to behold the national felicity will be largely to partake in it; and if, with this felicity, I enjoy health, which you kindly wish me, ..."

2. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, & Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans, Edith R. Hall (1843)
"... more and more turned towards the dear children, than is at present the case, that they also might with them partake in the joys of God's salvation. ..."

3. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... those, through their interpreters, Him ask, they might partake in Brennus' wars. When three years, Brennus, Spain's wide conquered glebe, Has ruled, ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads by Horace Gay Wood (1885)
"The power to manufacture and sell goods of a particular description does not include the power to partake in or to guarantee the profits of an enterprise ..."

5. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1886)
"Christ's dead to partake in the glory of His coming. Then, he foretells the results of the judgment—eternal destruction from the face of God for the wicked, ..."

6. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Drydens's by Plutarch (1885)
"... and come seasonably up to assist Cominius, and partake in the peril of the action. It was customary with the Romans of that age, when they were moving ..."

7. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"The eighth council at Toledo, in the 7th c., declared those who ate meat during Lent, sinners unworthy to partake in the resurrection. ..."

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