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Betake

//bɪˈteɪk// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To take over to; take across (to); deliver. obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    To beteach. transitive
  3. 3
    To seize; lay hold of; take. obsolete, transitive

    "a rain-cloud [...] had betaken a dusky brown color, and about its lower verge a fringe of fine straight lines of rain was suggested [...]."

  4. 4
    To take oneself to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse. literary, reflexive

    "One morning as I lay in my bed, a ſtrong motion vvas ſuddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London; I aroſe and betook me to the vvay, […]"

  5. 5
    To commit to a specified action. archaic, reflexive
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  1. 6
    To commend or entrust to; to commit to. archaic, transitive
  2. 7
    To take oneself. archaic, intransitive, often, poetic

    "Then do no further goe, no further stray, / But here lie downe, and to thy rest betake, / Th'ill to preuent, that life ensewen may. / For what hath life, that may it loued make, / And giues not rather cause it to forsake?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bitaken, equivalent to be- + take. Cognate with Danish betage (“to take, deprive, cut off”), Swedish beta (“to take, deprive, cut off”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English betaken, bitaken, in form equivalent to be- + take, however, in sense from betæcen, betechen (“to beteach”). More at beteach.

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