Definition of "partook" [par•took]

• Past tense of partake. (verb)

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• "It seemed to her that her sin partook of sacrilege or blasphemy."
• "The jargon partook of every accent and intonation the empire boasts of; and from the sharp precision of the North Tweeder to the broad doric of Kerry, every portion, almost every county, of Great Britain had its representative."
• "A clergymam, whose name partook both of the original and its corruption, was vicar of"