Betaken vs Betake - What's the difference?
betaken | betake |
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.
As verbs the difference between betaken and betake
is that betaken is while betake is to beteach or betake can be (obsolete) to take over to; take across (to); deliver.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.