Betake Definition

bĭ-tāk
betaken, betakes, betaking, betook
verb
To cause (oneself) to go or move.
American Heritage
To go: used reflexively.
He betook himself to his own kingdom.
Webster's New World
To commit.
American Heritage
To direct or devote (oneself)
Webster's New World

To beteach.

Wiktionary

Origin of Betake

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

    From Wiktionary

  • From be- +‎ take. Cognate with Danish betage (“to take, deprive, cut off”), Swedish betaka (“to take, deprive, cut off”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English bitaken bi- be- taken to take take

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Betake Sentence Examples

  • In consequence of these transactions, he was suffered to betake himself unharmed to Venice.

  • A provision was made that if, after waiting a year at Venice, they were unable to go to Jerusalem, this part of the vow should be cancelled and they should at once betake themselves to Rome.

  • As regards Vincent he himself tells us that only after long and sad experience of worldly turmoil did he betake himself to the haven of a religious life.

  • That the agent was acting entirely on his own responsibility may be doubted; for within a few months Erasmus had decided to betake himself to Basel, bearing with him Seneca and Jerome, the latter to be incorporated in the great edition which Johannes Amerbach and Froben had had in hand since 15ro.

  • The few books accessible to him he almost learned by heart; and, seeing that there was no chance of increasing his stock of knowledge in his native place, he resolved to betake himself to Moscow.

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