Partake vs Partage - What's the difference?
partake | partage |
(formal) To take part in an activity; to participate.
* John Locke
To take a share or portion (of).
(obsolete) To have something of the properties, character, or office (of).
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) A part, portion or share.
Division, sharing; the act of portioning out or dividing up.
*, I.46:
*:looke into our Royall house, where so many partages [tr. ], so many surnames, and so many severall titles have so encumbred us, that the originall of the stocke is utterly lost.
(archaic, archaeology) The one-time standard practice of the divvying up of artifacts between archaeologists, their patrons and the host territory.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between partake and partage
is that partake is (obsolete) to have something of the properties, character, or office (of) while partage is (obsolete) a part, portion or share.As a verb partake
is (formal) to take part in an activity; to participate.As a noun partage is
(obsolete) a part, portion or share.partake
English
Verb
- Brutes partake in this faculty.
- Will you partake of some food?
- The attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster partakes partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney-general.