partake

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  1. intransitive verb To take or have a part or share; participate.
  2. intransitive verb To take or be given part or portion: The guests partook of a delicious dinner.
  3. intransitive verb To have part of the quality, nature, or character of something.
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  • When they do partake, they are more than 10\% less likely to use birth control or condoms, a finding some educators think cinches the case for tying birth-control and HIV-protection information even to "abstinence-only" sex ed classes. million a year for Bush's folly? —  Plastic: Most Recent
  • I partake, but don't put much effort or faith in it. —  CNET Asia Reviews
  • Other divisions do not plan to allow their servicemembers to partake, officials have said in recent days. —  This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here
  • The offering is Mac and PC compatible; widescreen and Apple TVs can also partake, but iPhone and iPod with video will continue to support only standard-definition versions. —  MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing
  • LA Archives Bazaar*, I attended one of the most important lectures an ephemera enthusiast can partake: a panel discussion, entitled "You Still Can't Take It With You," addressing estate planning for collectors. —  ephemera
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Back-formation from partaker, one who partakes, from Middle English part-taker (translation of Latin particeps, participant).

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  1. from Middle English *part-taken, in part-takynge, parte-taker; from part + take. The formation is not according to English analogy, but is in imitation of Latin participare, from pars (part-), part, + capere, take. Cf. out-take, similarly imitated from the L.
 

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