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a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others. "Brutes partake in this faculty." Locke. When I against myself with thee partake. Shak.

Capable of being participated or shared. [R.] Norris.

One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.

A plate. See Paten. "Inlaid with patines of bright gold." Shak.

A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.

A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.

its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of Cross. [Written also paté, patee.]

to patter with the lips. Tyndale. Etym: [In this sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.]

A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance. [Written also paterero and peterero.]

garden in Athens. -- Philosophy of the Lyceum, that of Aristotle, the founder of the Peripatetic school, who delivered his lectures in the Lyceum at Athens. -- Philosophy of the Porch, that of Zeno and the Stoics; -- so called because Zeno of Citium and his successors taught in the porch of the Poicile, a great hall…

ion of devotion. The Schöne Seele, that ideal of gentle pietism, in "Wilhelm Meister." W. Pater.

ure, and in the exercise of which the most local governmental organizations should participate as far as possible (Burgess). Under this limitation the police power, as affecting persons, is the power of the state to protect the public against the abuse of individual liberty, that is, to restrain the individual in the e…

ish Puritans. The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian. Macaulay.

To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent. [Obs.] Philips.

To be beforehand with; to anticipate. [Obs.] Their ready guilt preventing thy commands. Pope.

One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another. [Obs.] Bacon.

n of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.

transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. Rambler.

A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. Abp. Bramhall.