Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contraction of taken, past participle of take.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Poetic & Scot. p. p. of
ta , to take, or a contraction oftaken .
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Examples
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All of the variations on Cumbric numbers are similar, and some are awesome - look at the Wasdale dialect, where "two, three, four" is "taen, tudder, anudder".
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Then we will be free again. taen we all can sing, free at last, yes we are free at last, praise God Almighty we are free at last.
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All of the variations on Cumbric numbers are similar, and some are awesome - look at the Wasdale dialect, where "two, three, four" is "taen, tudder, anudder".
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Girnington, has taen a new tack of life, I think, and I could only hope to get something by a change of government.
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“Gentlemen — gentlemen, save yourselves! for the gudewife bade us tell ye there were folk in her house had taen Captain Craigengelt, and were seeking for Bucklaw, and that ye behoved to ride for it.”
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“It may be sae, Willie,” answered Ratcliffe, composedly, “but I have taen a fancy to leave aff trade, and set up for an honest man.”
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The garrison and our ain horse could hae taen Rob Roy easily enough.
Rob Roy 2005
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They hae taen the indulged clergy, and an Erastian General Assembly of the ante pure and triumphant Kirk of Scotland, even into their very arms and bosoms.
Old Mortality 2004
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When he appeared in his new attire, Mrs. Wilson was first thankful “that they fitted him sae decently, since, though he was nae fatter, yet he looked mair manly than when he was taen frae Milnwood.”
Old Mortality 2004
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Young Earnscliff, Heaven bless him, has taen the chase, with Davie of Stenhouse, and the first comers.
The Black Dwarf 2004
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