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Take place

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To happen or to occur. intransitive

    "Unfortunately, the meeting never took place."

  2. 2
    come to pass wordnet
  3. 3
    To take precedence or priority. obsolete

    "I know him a notorious liar, / Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; / Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him, / That they take place, when virtue’s steely bones / Look bleak i’ the cold wind […]"

  4. 4
    To take effect; to prevail. obsolete

    "But he to shifte their curious request, / Gan causen, why she could not come in place; / Her crased helth, her late recourse to rest, / And humid euening ill for sicke folkes cace, / But none of those excuses could take place; / Ne would they eate, till she in presence came."

  5. 5
    To sit in a particular location, take one's place. obsolete

    "King Henry VIII takes place under the cloth of state; Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius sit under him as judges. Queen Katharine takes place some distance from King Henry VIII."

Etymology

A verb phrase, with place functioning as the direct object of the transitive verb take.

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