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borne | betake |

As an adjective borne

is narrow.

As a verb betake is

to beteach or betake can be (obsolete) to take over to; take across (to); deliver.

borne

English

Adjective

(-)
  • carried, supported.
  • * 1901 -
    • In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
  • * 1881: ", Poems , page 44
    • When, bright with purple and with gold,
    Come priest and holy cardinal,
    And borne above the heads of all
    The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
  • * c.2000 - , II
    • Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

    Derived terms

    * airborne * waterborne

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1907 , , The Dust of Conflict chapter 21 [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4429277W]
  • *:“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.”

    • Synonyms

    * endured

    Anagrams

    * English irregular past participles ----

    betake

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) betaken, bitaken, in form equivalent to .

    Verb

  • To beteach.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

  • (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:
    • a rain-cloud [...] had betaken a dusky brown color, and about its lower verge a fringe of fine straight lines of rain was suggested [...].
  • (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:
    • 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.
  • (reflexive, archaic) To commit to a specified action.
  • (archaic) To commend or entrust to; to commit to.
  • (archaic) To take oneself.
    • Synonyms
    * wend