Word Meanings - BETAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To take or seize. 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

Additional info about word: BETAKE

1. To take or seize. 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.

Related words: (words related to BETAKE)

• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• RESORT
  Active power or movement; spring. Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon.
• BETOOK
  of Betake.
• PRONOUNCER
  One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.
• THEMSELVES
  The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself.
• APPLY
  1. To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case. 2. To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. ; to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for
• WHITHERWARD
  In what direction; toward what or which place. R. of Brunne. Whitherward to turn for a good course of life was by no means too apparent. Carlyle.
• PRONOUN
  A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.
• RESORTER
  One who resorts; a frequenter.
• PRONOUNCE
  1. To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly. 2. To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver,
• WHITHERSOEVER
  To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead.
• SEIZER
  One who, or that which, seizes.
• SUBMISSION
  An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the
• PRONOUNCEABLE
  Capable of being pronounced.
• WHITHER
  1. To what place; -- used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou "Whider may I flee" Chaucer. Sir Valentine, whither away so fast Shak. 2. To what or which place; -- used relatively. That no man should know . . . whither that he went. Chaucer.
• PRONOUNCED
  Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. Note: views became every day more pronounced. Thackeray.
• IMITATION
  One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• REFLEXIVE
  Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond. 2. Implying censure. "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word" South. (more info) 1. Etym:
• PRONOUNCEMENT
  The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.
• MISPRONOUNCE
  To pronounce incorrectly.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• NONSUBMISSION
  Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• SOMEWHITHER
  To some indeterminate place; to some place or other. Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow.
• REAPPLY
  To apply again.
• REDISSEIZE
  To disseize anew, or a second time.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.