What is the difference between participate and partake?
participate | partake |
To join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something).
(obsolete) To share, share in (something).
* 1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , I:
(obsolete) To share (something) (with) others; to transfer (something) (to) or (unto) others.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , II:
(obsolete) Acting in common; participating.
* 1608 , , I. i. 101:
(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
In intransitive terms the difference between participate and partake
is that participate is to join in, to take part, to involve oneself ({{term|in}} something) while partake is to take a share or portion (of).As an adjective participate
is acting in common; participating.participate
English
Verb
(participat)- they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup [...].
- Make the Earth [...] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star.
Adjective
(-)- And, mutually participate , did minister / Unto the appetite and affection common / Of the whole body.
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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.