betake
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English bitaken, equivalent to be- + take.
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betake (third-person singular simple present betakes, present participle betaking, simple past betook, past participle betaken)
- (obsolete) To take. [from 15th c.]
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 194:
- a rain-cloud [...] had betaken a dusky brown color, and about its lower verge a fringe of fine straight lines of rain was suggested [...].
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 194:
- (reflexive, archaic) To go or move. [from 17th c.]
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 12:
- I was glad of my arrival for I was wearied with the way, and yellow of face for weakness and want; but my plight was pitiable and I knew not whither to betake me.
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 12:
- (reflexive, archaic) To commit to a specified action. [from 16th c.]
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to go or move
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to commit to a specified action.
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