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pertake

pertake is the obsolete form of partake.

Meaning of partake

Verb

partake (third-person singular simple present partakes, present participle partaking, simple past partook, past participle partaken)

  1. (formal, intransitive) To take part in an activity; to participate.
    • Brutes partake in this faculty.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC
  2. (formal, intransitive) To take a share or portion.
    • Will you partake of some food?
  3. (archaic, intransitive) To have something of the properties, character, or office.
    • the Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster , who partakes of both qualities, partly of a judge in the court, and partly of an attorney-generalc. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers

Forms of pertake

third-person singular presentpertakes
present participlepertaking
pastpertook
past participlepertaken

Questions about pertake

What is pertake the obsolete form of?
Pertake is the obsolete form of partake.

Words near pertake in the dictionary

  1. pertainments
  2. pertains
  3. pertainym
  4. pertainyms
  5. pertainymy
  6. pertake
  7. pertaken
  8. pertakes
  9. pertaking
  10. Pertame
  11. pertechnate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pertake (page history and authors); partake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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