BETAKE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To take or seize. [Obs.] Spenser.

2.
v.

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.
v.

To commend or intrust to; to commit to. [Obs.]

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