partake

verb

1. (formal, intransitive)To take part in an activity; to participate.

   “Brutes partake in this faculty.”

2. (formal, intransitive)To take a share or portion.

   “Will you partake of some food?”

   “The steak and chips partaken of for lunch seemed now to belong to another decade. He regretfully recognized the fact that he would not make a success of a hunger strike.”

3. (archaic, intransitive)To have something of the properties, character, or office.

   “c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers the Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster , who partakes of both qualities, partly of a judge in the court, and partly of an attorney-general”

   “The people are encouraged to perceive their liberation in historic terms and to trust that new events will partake of past glories.”