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Definition of Betakes

Betake
Betake Be*take", v. 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.]

Meaning of Betakes from wikipedia

- not equal to a painter, but to Nature itself – died in Port' Ercolebetaking himself hither from Naplesreturning to Rome – 15th calend of August...
- the children shall pick rags to lint [for bandages]; the old men shall betake themselves to the public square in order to arouse the courage of the warriors...
- discovered from the footsteps of these animals whither they are accustomed to betake themselves, they either undermine all the trees at the roots, or cut into...
- alcoholic beverage, thus cir****venting the law. In desperate cases it has to betake itself to the exhibition of Greenland pigs and other curious animals, charging...
- me in view of eternal death, I, duty bound, made it my first business to betake myself to your way, condemning my past life, not without groans and tears...
- hospitals; the children shall turn old lint into linen; the old men shall betake themselves to the public squares in order to arouse the courage of the warriors...
- until the next May, when they are again... forced around St. Vitus' Day to betake themselves to that place... [o]ne of these women is said to have danced...
- Estácio dos Reis. "Tycho Brahe recorre ao nónio de Pedro Nunes" [Tycho Brahe betakes Pedro Nunes' Nonius]. Ciência Viva. Archived from the original on 14 April...
- capital of the Khazars. They embark on the Jorjan Sea, arrive at Balkh, betake themselves from there across the Oxus, and continue their journey toward...
- derived from the verb root bhaj-, which means "to worship, have recourse to, betake onself to" or bhañj-, which means "to break." The word also means "attachment...