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partaker

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par·take  (pär-tk)
v. par·took (-tk), par·tak·en (-tkn), par·tak·ing, pa·takes
v.intr.
1. To take or have a part or share; participate.
2. To take or be given part or portion: The guests partook of a delicious dinner.
3. To have part of the quality, nature, or character of something.
v.tr.
To take or have a part in; share in.
[Back-formation from partaker, one who partakes, from Middle English part-taker (translation of Latin particeps, participant).]
par·taker n.
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Noun1.partaker - someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share
sharer
participant - someone who takes part in an activity
pooler - someone who shares in and contributes to a general fund for use by all
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For if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
Leisurely and with something of an air I strolled along with my heart expanding at the thought that I was a citizen of great Gotham, a sharer in its magnificence and pleasures, a partaker in its glory and prestige.
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I am so determined to love him, so intensely anxious to excuse his errors, that I am continually dwelling upon them, and labouring to extenuate the loosest of his principles and the worst of his practices, till I am familiarised with vice, and almost a partaker in his sins.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
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