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Another word for partaking

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Noun
      1. Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.
      2. (Law) Division of property, especially real property, between co-owners into equivalent, separately owned portions or shares.
      3. (Law) The process of dividing property and giving separate title to those who previously had joint or common title
      1. The principles or system of ownership and control of the means of production and distribution by the people collectively, usually under the supervision of a government.
      1. The act or an instance of sharing, as of thoughts or feelings.
      2. The consecrated bread or wine of the Eucharist; Holy Communion
      3. A sharing in, or celebrating of, the Eucharist, or Holy Communion
    See also:

    sharing

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Sentence Examples

  • Partaking human food is now extraneous, yet can still be quite enjoyable.

  • It is important to also include nonalcoholic options for those not partaking in alcoholic choices.

  • He could only be invoked under the open sky, as partaking of the nature of a god of light and day; hence a round opening was made in the roof of his temple through which prayers might ascend to heaven.

  • 13); (34) the tree called peridexion (protects pigeons from the serpent by its shadow); (35) the pigeons (of several colours;: led by one of them, which is of a purple or golden colour); (36) the antelope (or hydrippus; caught by its horns in the thicket); (37) the fireflints (of two sexes; combine to produce fire); (38) the magnet (adheres to iron); (39) the saw-fish (sails in company with ships); (40) the ibis (fishes only along the shore); (41) the ibex (descries a hunter from afar); (42) the diamond again (read "carbuncle"; found only by night); (43) the elephant.(conceives after partaking of mandrake; brings forth in the water; the young protected from the serpent by the father; when fallen is lifted up only by a certain small individual of its own kind); (44) the agate (employed in pearl-fishing); (45) the wild ass and ape (mark the equinox); (46) the Indian stone (relieves patients of the dropsy); (47) the heron (touches no dead body, and keeps to one dwellingplace); (48) the sycamore (or wild fig; grubs living inside the fruit and coming out); (49) the ostrich (devours all sorts of things; forgetful of its own eggs).

  • The members accidentally discovered that the fear of it had a great influence over the lawless but superstitious blacks, and soon the club expanded into a great federation of regulators, absorbing numerous local bodies that had been formed in the absence of civil law and partaking of the nature of the old English neighbourhood police and the ante-bellum slave patrol.

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