BETAKE

Etymology 1

Verb

betake (third-person singular simple present betakes, present participle betaking, simple past betook, past participle betaken)

(transitive) To beteach.

Etymology 2

Verb

betake (third-person singular simple present betakes, present participle betaking, simple past betook, past participle betaken)

(transitive, obsolete) To take over to; take across (to); deliver.

(transitive, obsolete) To seize; lay hold of; take. [from 15th c.]

(reflexive, archaic) To take oneself to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse. [from 17th c.]

(reflexive, archaic) To commit to a specified action. [from 16th c.]

(transitive, archaic) To commend or entrust to; to commit to.

(intransitive, archaic) To take oneself.

Synonyms

• wend

Source: Wiktionary

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Be*take", v. t. [imp. Betook; p. p. Betaken; p. pr. & vb. n. Betaking.] Etym: [Pref. be- + take.]

1. To take or seize. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun. They betook themselves to treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

3. To commend or intrust to; to commit to. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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