betake
pronunciation
How to pronounce betake in British English:
UK [bɪˈteɪk]
How to pronounce betake in American English:
US [bɪ'teɪk]
Word Origin
- betake (v.)
- c. 1200, from be- + take. Related: Betook; betaken.
Example
- 1. Since I initiated the idea of post-graduate students betake korea .
- 2. How she would have liked to betake herself to paris !
- 3. I would leave you in the old world , and betake myself to the new .
- 4. The depraved , the foolish , the lower levels of humanity , do not surrender unto me ; their discrimination degraded by the illusory energy they betake to the nature of the demoniac .
- 5. If however any man by using force stands in thy way , betake thyself to contentment and tranquility , and at the same time employ the hindrance towards the exercise of some other virtue ; and remember that thy attempt was with a reservation , that thou didst not desire to do impossibilities .