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Wiktionary
- v. present participle of partake.
Etymologies
- Back-formation from partaker, one who partakes, from Middle English part-taker (translation of Latin particeps, participant).
Examples
“Is that the sort of thing anybody would be interested in partaking of?”
“Web users can begin partaking in inaugural festivities starting tomorrow, via live streaming of Saturday's Whistle Stop Tour that will take President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden to Washington, D.C., from Philadelphia.”
Microsoft's Silverlight to stream online video of inauguration
“Web users can begin partaking in inaugural festivities starting tomorrow, via live streaming ...”
“They probably did not know that the Gentiles were to be admitted without circumcision or that they were to be on a level with the Jews in partaking of the grace of God.”
“The spiritual Israelite derived, in partaking of these legal rights, spiritual blessings not flowing from them, but from the great antitype.”
“The four of us who sickened at the idea of partaking of the horrid meal withdrew to the seclusion of our tent; it was bad enough to hear; without witnessing the appalling operation.”
“The four of us who sickened at the idea of partaking of the horrid meal withdrew to the seclusion of our tent; it was bad enough to hear, without witnessing the appalling operation.”
“Cumberland's memoirs have generally been characterized as partaking of romance, and in the present instance he had particular motives for tampering with the truth.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“But the doors of perception were thrown open at the idea of partaking of a blessing of faith with people she had heretofore only interacted with cerebrally.”
“This is what Paul figuratively calls partaking of the true unleavened bread -- or wafers, or cakes.”
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