Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 20

Part (v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.

Part (v. i.) To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from.

Part (v. i.) To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from.

Part (v. i.) To have a part or share; to partake.

Part (adv.) Partly; in a measure.

Partable (a.) See Partible.

Partage (n.) Division; the act of dividing or sharing.

Partage (n.) Part; portion; share.

Partook (imp.) of Partake

Partaken (p. p.) of Partake

Partaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Partake

Partake (v. i.) To take 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.

Partake (v. i.) To have something of the properties, character, or office; -- usually followed by of.

Partake (v. t.) To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share.

Partake (v. t.) To admit to a share; to cause to participate; to give a part to.

Partake (v. t.) To distribute; to communicate.

Partaker (n.) One who partakes; a sharer; a participator.

Partaker (n.) An accomplice; an associate; a partner.

Partan (n.) An edible British crab.

Parted (a.) Separated; devided.

Parted (a.) Endowed with parts or abilities.

Parted (a.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc.

Parter (n.) One who, or which, parts or separates.

Parterre (n.) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

Parterre (n.) The pit of a theater; the parquet.

Partheniad (n.) A poem in honor of a virgin.

Parthenic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Spartan Partheniae, or sons of unmarried women.

Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.

Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle.

Parthenogenetic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms.

Parthenogenitive (a.) Parthenogenetic.

Parthenogeny (n.) Same as Parthenogenesis.

Parthenon (n.) A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.

Partenope (n.) One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.

Partenope (n.) One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.

Parthian (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia.

Parthian (n.) A native Parthia.

Partial (n.) Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.

Partial (n.) Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial.

Partial (n.) Having a predelection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond.

Partial (n.) Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole.

Partialism (n.) Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.

Partialist (n.) One who is partial.

Partialist (n.) One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect.

Partiality (n.) The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.

Partiality (n.) A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting.

Partialize (v. t. & i.) To make or be partial.

Partially (adv.) In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed.

Partially (adv.) In a partial manner; with undue bias of mind; with unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge partially.

Partibility (n.) The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance.

Partible (a.) Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible.

Participable (a.) Capable of being participated or shared.

Participant (a.) Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

Participant (n.) A participator; a partaker.

Participantly (adv.) In a participant manner.

Participate (a.) Acting in common; participating.

Participated (imp. & p. p.) of Participate

Participating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Participate

Participate (v. i.) To have a share in common with others; to take a part; to partake; -- followed by in, formely by of; as, to participate in a debate.

Participate (v. t.) To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of.

Participate (v. t.) To impart, or give, or share of.

Participation (n.) The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.

Participation (n.) Distribution; division into shares.

Participation (n.) community; fellowship; association.

Participative (a.) Capable of participating.

Participator (n.) One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.

Participial (a.) Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun.

Participial (n.) A participial word.

Participialized (imp. & p. p.) of Participialize

Participializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Participialize

Participialize (v. t.) To form into, or put in the form of, a participle.

Participially (adv.) In the sense or manner of a participle.

Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.

Participle (a.) Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.

Particle (n.) A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.

Particle (n.) Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue.

Particle (n.) A crumb or little piece of concecrated host.

Particle (n.) The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity.

Particle (n.) A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely.

Particolored (a.) Same as Party-colored.

Particular (a.) Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation.

Particular (a.) Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular.

Particular (a.) Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.

Particular (a.) Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.

Particular (a.) Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.

Particular (a.) Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant.

Particular (a.) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise.

Particular (n.) A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.

Particular (n.) Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc.

Particular (n.) One of the details or items of grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises.

Particularism (n.) A minute description; a detailed statement.

Particularism (n.) The doctrine of particular election.

Particularism (n.) Devotion to the interests of one's own kingdom or province rather than to those of the empire.

Particularist (n.) One who holds to particularism.

Particularities (pl. ) of Particularity

Particularity (n.) The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

Particularity (n.) That which is particular

Particularity (n.) Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity.

Particularity (n.) Special circumstance; minute detail; particular.

Particularity (n.) Something of special or private concern or interest.

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