BETOOK

Verb

betook

simple past tense of betake

Source: Wiktionary


Be*took", imp.

Definition: of Betake.

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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