Participate
(Par*tic"i*pate) a. [L. participatus, p. p. of participare to participate; pars, partis, part + capere to take. See Part, and Capacious.] Acting in common; participating. [R.] Shak.

Participate
(Par*tic"i*pate) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Participated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Participating.] 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. Shak.

So would he participateof their wants.
Hayward.

Mine may come when men
With angels may participate.
Milton.

Participate
(Par*tic"i*pate), v. t.

1. To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of. [R.]

Fit to participate all rational delight.
Milton.

2. To impart, or give, or share of. [Obs.] Drayton.

Participation
(Par*tic`i*pa"tion) n. [F. participation, L. participatio.]

1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.

These deities are so by participation.
Bp. Stillingfleet.

What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself!
Atterbury.

2. Distribution; division into shares. [Obs.] Raleigh.

3. community; fellowship; association. [Obs.] Shak.

Participative
(Par*tic"i*pa*tive) a. [Cf. F. participatif.] Capable of participating.

Participator
(Par*tic"i*pa`tor) n. [L.] One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.

Participial
(Par`ti*cip"i*al) a. [L. participialis: cf. E. participal. See Participle.] Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. Lowth.

Participial
(Par`ti*cip"i*al), n. A participial word.

Participialize
(Par`ti*cip"i*al*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Participialized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Participializing.] To form into, or put in the form of, a participle. [R.]

Participially
(Par`ti*cip"i*al*ly), adv. In the sense or manner of a participle.

Participle
(Par"ti*ci*ple) n. [F. participe, L. participium, fr. particeps sharing, participant; pars, gen. partis, a part + capere to take. See Participate.]

1. (Gram.) 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.

By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an adjectival aspect.
Earle.

Present participles, called also imperfect, or incomplete, participles, end in -ing. Past participles, called also perfect, or complete, participles, for the most part end in -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n. A participle

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