betake

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  1. transitive verb To cause (oneself) to go or move.
  2. transitive verb Archaic To commit.

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  1. Middle English bitaken : bi-, be- + taken, to take; see take.

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  1. from be- + take. The corresponding Middle English form betaken, bitaken (preterit betok, past participle betaken) seems to have been used only in the senses of betake or beteach, with which it was confused. There is no Anglo-Saxon *betacan; but cf. Swedish betaka = Danish betage, take, deprive, cut off.
  2. Middle English betaken, etc., with forms properly belonging to betake, q. v., but with various senses of betæcen, betechen, beteach: see beteach.
 

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