Definition of Betke
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.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- To cause (oneself) to go or move.
- (Archaic) To commit.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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