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You may partake of any thing we fay; 
We fpeak no treafon. Shakefpeare's Rich. III. 
To PARTA'KE, v. a. To (hare ; to have part in.—Let 
her with thee partake what thou haft heard. Milton's P. L. 
My royal father lives ! 
Let every one partake the general joy. Dryden. 
To admit to part; to extend participation to. Obfulete. 
—Your exultation partake to every one. Shakefpeare. 
My friend, hight Philemon, I did partake 
Of all my love, and all my privity, 
Who greatly joyous feemed for my fake. Spenfer. 
PARTA'KER, f. A partner in poffeflions; a fharer of 
anything; an aflociate with: commonly with of before 
the thing partaken.—They whom earned lets hinder from 
being partakers of the whole, have yet, through length 
of divine fervice, opportunity for accefs unto fome rea- 
fonable part thereof. Hooker. 
Didft thou 
Make us partakers of a little gain ; 
That now our lofs might be ten times as much ? Skakefp. 
Sometimes with in before the thing partaken: perhaps of 
is beft before a thing, and in before an action.—If we had 
been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been 
partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Matth. 
xiii. 30. 
With me partaker in thy happinefs, 
When thou doft meet good hap. Shakefpeare. 
Accomplice ; aflociate.—Thou confentedft, and haft been 
partaker with adulterers. Pfalm 1 . 18.— He took upon 
him the perfon of the duke of York, and drew with him 
complices and partakers. Bacon. 
PARTA'KING, f Combination; union in fome bad 
defign. A juridical fenfe. —As it prevents factions and 
partakings, Co it keeps the rule and adminiftration of the 
laws uniform. Hale. 
PARTAPA'H, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: thir¬ 
teen miles north of Hajypour. Lat. 25. 54. N. Ion. 85. 
28. E. 
PAR'TED, adj. [from part.'] Poffefling accomplifh- 
ments.—A man well parted, a fufficient fcholar, and tra¬ 
velled. B. Joufon’s Every Man out of his Humour. 
PARTENA'Y. See Parthenay. 
PARTE'NI, a river of Natolia, which runs into the 
Black Sea near Amafreh. 
PAR'TENKERCH, a town of Bavaria, in the bifhop- 
ric of Freyfing : fix miles fouth of Weilhaim. 
PAR'TER,/. One that parts orfeparates.—The parter 
of the fray was night, which, with her black arms, pulled 
their malicious fights one from the other. Sidney. 
PARTER'RE, J'. [ parterre, Fr.] A level divifion of 
ground, that, for the moft part, faces the fouth and beft 
front of an houfe, and is furnifhed with greens and 
flowers. 31 illcr. —There are as many kinds of gardening 
as of poetry ; your makers of parlerrres and flower-gar¬ 
dens are epigramatifts and fonneteers. Spectator. 
The vaft parterres a thoufand hands fliall make; 
Lo ! Cobham comes,, and floats them with a lake. Pope. 
Of parterres there are two kinds ; the plain ones and 
the parterres of.embroidery. Plain parterres are moft va¬ 
luable in England, becaule of the firmnefs of the Eng- 
liih grafs-turf, which is fuperior to that of any other 
part of the world. Parterres of embroidery are thofe 
which are cut into (hell and fcroll work, with alleys be¬ 
tween them. An oblong or long fquare, is accounted 
the moft proper figure for a parterre ; and a parterre 
fhould indeed be always twice as long as it is broad, be- 
caufe, according to the known laws of perfpe&ive, a long 
fquare always finks to a fquare; and an exadt fquare 
always appears lefs than it really is. 
Parterres w'ere formerly in great eftimation, and were 
commonly fituated diredtly in the front of the houfe, ge¬ 
nerally the whole width, and fometimes more, extending 
proportionably in length : and, where the intermixture of 
the figures is artfully difpofed, they ftrike the eye very 
agreeably, and afford an ornamental effeft at all feafons. 
But works of this fort are now almoft wholly out of ufe 
in this country; though, for the fake of variety, they may, 
on fome occafions, ftill be admitted. 
PARTES'TI, a town ofBukovina: eighteen miles 
weft of Sucfava. 
PAR'THA, a river of Saxony, which runs into the 
Plefs near Leipfic. 
PAR'THA, in mythology, a name of the Phallic em¬ 
blem, worfhipped by certain fefts of Hindoos, and called 
by them Lingam ; fee'that article. The Partha is, we 
believe, a domeftic idol, made of the ufual conical form, 
with clay, and without any thing indecent in its appear¬ 
ance, for females to pay their daily adoration to. It is 
fometimes placed under a tree, and circumambulated a 
certain number of times daily, efpecially by barren fe¬ 
males, in the hope of offspring. This ceremony is called 
pradakjhna, and is deferibed under that word. 
PARTHENA'Y, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftridt, in the department of the Two Sevres, near 
the river Thoue. The place contains 3213 inhabitants. 
The trade of the town, which is confiderable, confifts in 
cattle and corn : twenty-one miles north-north-eaft of 
Niort. Lat. 46.38. N. lon.o. 10. W. 
PARTHENA'Y (John de). Lord of Soubife, an he¬ 
roic leader among the proteftants of France; born 1512, 
died 1566. 
PARTHENA'Y (Catharine de), daughter and heirefs 
of the preceding, whofe courage and conftancy in the 
caufe of Calvinifm fhe likewifeinherited, was born in 1554. 
To her fortitude was joined a good ftiare of wit, and no 
contemptible turn to poetry, as appears from fome poems 
which fire publifhed in 1572, when (lie could not be above 
eighteen years of age. She wrote alfo tragedies and co¬ 
medies ; and particularly the tragedy of Holofernes, 
which was reprefented on the theatre of Rochelle in 1574. 
She alfo tranflated the Precepts of Ifocrates into French. 
This lady was twice married : firft, in 1568, when only 
fourteen years of age, to the baron de Pons ; and after¬ 
wards, in 1575, to Renatus vifeount Rohan. The cele¬ 
brated duke de Rohan, who fo courageoufly defended the 
proteftant caufe in France during the civil wars of Louis 
XIII. was her eldeft fon. Catharine, one of her daugh¬ 
ters, has rendered her name illuftrious by the following 
anfwer which fhe made to Henry IV. who folicited her 
favours : “ I am too poor, fire, to be your wife, and too 
proud to be your miftrefs.” Catharine, the fubjedt of this 
article, was at Rochelle at the time of its memorable 
fiege; and, when the place furrendered,fhe and her daugh¬ 
ters were fent to the caftle of Niort. She died in 1631, at 
the age of feventy-feven. 
PARTHE'NIA, or Parthenos, in mythology, an 
epithet given to Minerva, becaufe fhe is faid to have pre- 
ferved her virginity. When the Rhodians negledted the 
worfhip of that goddefs, and their care in improving the 
fine arts, the Athenians began to diftinguifh theinfelves 
in this refpedt, and took her for their patronefs. Accor- 
. dingly they dedicated to her a magnificent temple, un¬ 
der the name of Parthenon. Phidias adorned it with a 
ftatue of gold and ivory, which was a mafter-piece; and 
the Athenians alfo celebrated to her honour a feftival, 
which was afterward called Panathentea, deferibed at 
p. 313 of this volume. 
Parthenos was alfo a name given to Juno, from a notion 
that this goddefs, by bathing herfelf every year in the 
fountain called Canathos, which was at Naupiia, reco¬ 
vered her virginity; a fable, founded, according to Pau- 
fanias, upon the fecret myfteries that were celebrated in 
honour of this goddefs. 
PARTHE'NIA, in ancient geography, a town of Il¬ 
lyria, according to Polybius 5 called by Julius Casfar Op- 
pidum Parthinorum. 
PARTHE'NIAD, 
