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undertook |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Undertake \Un`der*take"\, v. t. [imp. {Undertook}; p. p. {Undertaken}; p. pr & vb n. {Undertaking}.] [Under + take.] 1. To take upon one's self to engage in to enter upon to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about to attempt. To second or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. --Milton. 2. Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract. I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak. 3. Hence to guarantee; to promise; to affirm. And he was not right fat, I undertake. --Dryden. And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy. --Shak. I dare undertake they will not lose their labor. --Woodward. 4. To assume, as a character. [Obs.] --Shak. 5. To engage with to attack. [Obs.] It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offense to --Shak. 6. To have knowledge of to hear. [Obs.] --Spenser. 7. To take or have the charge of [Obs.] ``Who undertakes you to your end.'' --Shak. Keep well those that ye undertake. --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Undertook \Un`der*took"\, imp. of {Undertake}.
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