impart

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"Allah, where'er thou be, His aid impart * To thee, who distant dwellest in my heart!

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  1. transitive verb To grant a share of; bestow: impart a subtle flavor; impart some advice.
  2. transitive verb To make known; disclose: persuaded to impart the secret.
  3. transitive verb To pass on; transmit: imparts forward motion.

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  • He had important information to impart, and in his opinion he should not have been told that Colt was engaged. —  Out of the Past - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 23: 1953
  • I shall produce three of them here in order to emphasize that precious thing which George Sand loved to impart, and which she had the gift of imparting, namely, joy, the spontaneous joyousness of her own nature. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • She has information of the utmost gravity to impart, and wishes an audience at once Burris looked startled. —  That Sweet Little Old Lady
  • I have things of importance to impart, and as I look upon you as one exclusively mine, I am sure that you will listen to them with becoming attention I was proceeding to make the necessary protestations of my entire devotedness, when he stopped me, and proceeded thus Well or ill, our business with the English ambassador is at length concluded, and the Shah has ceded to his wishes of sending an ambassador to England in return. —  The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
  • Just how much information to impart, and just how much to withhold are quantitative questions, which can be decided wisely by only those persons who know what their quantitative values are. —  The Navy as a Fighting Machine
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impart:   imparting ·  imparted ·  imparts
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English imparten, from Old French impartir, from Latin impertīre, impartīre : in-, in; see in-2 + partīre, to share (from pars, part-, part; see perə-2 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = Old French impair, impar, French impair (see impair) = Spanish Portuguese impar = Italian impari, from Latin impar, inpar, unequal, from in- privative + par, equal: see par, pair, peer.
  2. from Old French empartir = Spanish impartir = Italian impartire, from Latin impertire, inpertire, also impartire, inpartire, give part in, share with, from in, in, + partire, part, divide, from par(t-)s, part, share: see part.
 

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