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Webster 1913 Edition
Betake
Be-take′
,Verb.
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.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Betake
BETA'KE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To take to; to have recourse to; to apply; to resort; with the reciprocal pronoun; as, to betake ourselves to arms, or to action. It generally implies a motion towards an object, as to betake ourselves to a shade grove; or an application of the mind or faculties, corresponding with such motion, as to betake ourselves to study or to vice.2.
Formerly, to take or seize.