BETAKEN
Verb
betaken
past participle of betake
Source: Wiktionary
BETAKE
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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