Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause (oneself) to go or move.
- transitive verb Archaic To commit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
beteach . - To seize; take hold of; take.
- Reflexively, to take one's self (to); repair; resort; have recourse.
- To take one's self.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To take or seize.
- transitive verb To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
- transitive verb obsolete To commend or intrust to; to commit to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
beteach . - verb transitive, obsolete To
take over to; take across (to);deliver . - verb transitive, archaic To
commend orentrust to; tocommit to. - verb intransitive, archaic To take oneself.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you endeavor to approach these bird in their haunts, they betake themselves to flight.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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If you endeavor to approach these bird in their haunts, they betake themselves to flight.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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As he had no passport, he was arrested after a few days, told to betake himself to another country and released.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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I betake myself to Allah for refuge from the accursed Satan.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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Note 51: The custom of all the gentlemen of the house was to betake themselves straightway after supper to my lady Duchess; where, among the other pleasant pastimes and music and dancing that continually were practised, sometimes neat questions were proposed, sometimes ingenious games were devised at the choice of one or another, in which under various disguises the company disclosed their thoughts figuratively to whom they liked best.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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I betake myself to Allah for refuge from the accursed Satan.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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Turning away from childish games, she used to hide herself in retired chambers, that she might give herself up more completely to prayer; and by constantly reading the deeds of holy men, she was so inflamed with the desire of a more austere life, that she even laid a plan with her brother to run away from their father's house and to betake themselves to a desert place.
29 December -- St Thomas of Canterbury John 2008
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It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.
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I betake myself to Allah for refuge from the accursed Satan.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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On the arrival of spring they betake themselves to Antarctica, where they have their regular rookeries in places where there is bare ground.
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