Betake vs Ojban - What's the difference?
betake | ojban |
To beteach.
(obsolete) To take over to; take across (to); deliver.
(obsolete) To seize; lay hold of; take.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 194:
(reflexive, archaic) To take one's self to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse.
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 12:
(reflexive, archaic) To commit to a specified action.
(archaic) To commend or entrust to; to commit to.
(archaic) To take oneself.
betake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) betaken, bitaken, in form equivalent to .Verb
Etymology 2
From .Verb
- a rain-cloud [...] had betaken a dusky brown color, and about its lower verge a fringe of fine straight lines of rain was suggested [...].
- I was glad of my arrival for I was wearied with the way, and yellow of face for weakness and want; but my plight was pitiable and I knew not whither to betake me.
- They betook themselves to treaty and submission. — Burke.
- The rest, in imitation, to like arms / Betook them. — Milton.