Definition of "impart"

impart

/ɪmˈpɑːt/

verb
third-person singular simple present imparts, present participle imparting, simple past and past participle imparted
1. (transitive) To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property).
2. (transitive) To give a part or to share.
  Quotations
  Expressing well the spirit within thee [Adam] free, / My [God's] image, not imparted to the brute.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, line 440
  Did not Mazzini impart his spirit to divided Italy, and make her one?
  1907, Charles Henry Vine, The Old Faith and the New Theology‎
  Cary Grant imparts his ineffable charm, Kennedy (with metal hand) provides comic brutality, while Hepburn is elegantly fraught.
  2002, John Pym, Time Out Film Guide‎, page 202
3. (transitive) To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.).
  Quotations
  Well may he then to you his cares impart.
  1662, John Dryden, letter to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you.
  c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
  The departure was not unduly prolonged. […] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
  1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
4. (intransitive) To hold a conference or consultation.
5. (transitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of.
  Quotations
  Sweet Cossen, what we may not now impart, heere let vs bury it, closely in our hart
  c. 1587, Anthony Munday, John a Kent and John a Cumber

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impart

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