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Definition of Partaken
1. partake [v] - See also: partake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Partaken
Literary usage of Partaken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"Among the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, men who have partaken of human
flesh as a ceremonial rite are subject for a long time afterwards to many ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Some of this bread was thus partaken of by the first missionaries before they
knew its composition. Their religion was a pure nature worship, ..."
3. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"You have partaken of my prosperity; it now remains to you, since you have chosen
it, to partake of my misery. Expect nothing in future but insult and ..."
4. The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to by Henry Hallam (1849)
"... factious, intolerant, calumnious; but this was not necessarily partaken by
all its members, and many excellent men might deem themselves hardly dealt ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Meat and milk are never partaken of together at the same meal, sufficient interval
being allowed, if the meat has been eaten first, for it to be digested ..."
6. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"... (of whose favors we have largely partaken,) so we esteem it our duty gratefully
to commemorate and acknowledge the same : earnestly beseeching Almighty ..."
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