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betaken |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Betake \Be*take"\, v. t. [imp. {Betook}; p. p. {Betaken}; p. pr & vb n. {Betaking}.] [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.]
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