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To take or seize.

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  1. v. t. To take or seize.
  2. v. t. To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
  3. v. t. To commend or intrust to; to commit to.
  4. 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.]
  5. v. t. To take or seize. v. t. To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun. v. t. To commend or intrust to; to commit to.