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To judge in favour of; to adopt. 
The nicest eye could no distinction make, 
Where lay the advantage, or what side to taJce. Dry den. 
To admit any thing bad from without. 
I ought to have a care 
To keep my wounds from taking air. Hudibras. 
To get; to procure.—Striking stones they took fire out of 
them. Mac. —To turn to; to practise.—If any of the family 
be distressed, order is taken for their relief: if any be subject 
to vice, or take ill courses, they are reproved. Bacon. 
—To close in with; to comply with. 
Old as I am, I take thee at thy word. 
And will to-morrow thank thee with my sword. Dry den. 
To form; to fix.—Resolutions, taken upon full debate, 
were seldom prosecuted with equal resolution. Clarendon. 
—To catch in the hand ; to seize.—I took not arms till urg'd 
by self-defence. Dryden. —To admit; to suffer. 
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; 
Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel 
The first sharp motions of the forming wheel. Dryden. 
To perform any action. 
A long sigh he drew, 
And his voice failing, took his last adieu. Dryden. 
To receive into the mind.—A student should never satisfy 
himself with bare attendance on lectures, unless he clearly 
takes up the sense. Watts. —To go into.—When news 
were brought that the French king besieged [Constance, he 
posted to the sea-coast to take ship. Camden. —To go 
along; to follow; to pursue. 
The joyful short-liv’d news soon spread around, 
Took the same train. Dryden. 
To swallow; to receive.—Consider the insatisfaction of 
several bodies, and of their appetite to take in others. Ba¬ 
con. —To swallow as a medicine.—Upon this assurance he 
took physic. Locke. —To choose one of more. 
Take to thee from among the cherubin 
Thy choice of flaming warriours. Milton. 
To copy. 
Our phoenix queen was pourtray’d too so bright, 
Beauty alone cou’d beauty take so right. Dryden: 
To convey ; to carry; to transport. 
Carry Sir John Falstaff to the fleet, 
Take all his company along with him. Shakspeare. 
To fasten on; to seize.—.Wheresoever he taketh him he 
teareth him; and he foameth. St. Mark. 
At first they warm, then scorch, and then they take. 
Now with long necks from side to side they feed; 
At length grown strong their mother fire forsake, 
And a new colony of flames succeed. Dryden. 
Not to refuse; to accept. 
Thou tak'st thy mother’s word too far, said he, 
And hast usurp’d thy boasted pedigree. Dryden. 
To adopt..—I will take you to me for a people, and I will 
be to you a God. Exod. —To change with respect to place. 
—Lovers flung themselves from the top of the precipice into 
the sea, where they were sometimes taken up alive. Addison. 
—To separate. 
The living fabric now in pieces take. 
Of every part due observation make; 
All which such art discovers. Blackmore. 
To admit. 
Though so much of Heav’n appears in my make, 
The foulest impressions I easily take. Swift. 
To pursue; to go in-. 
It was her fortune once to take her way 
Along the sandy margin of the sea: Dryden. 
K E. 
To receive any temper or disposition of mind. 
Few are so wicked as to take delight 
In crimes unprofitable. Dryden. 
To endure; to hear.—Won’t you then take a jest. Spec¬ 
tator.- —To draw; to derive.—The firm belief of a future 
judgment, is the most forcible| motive to a good life; be¬ 
cause taken from this consideration of the most lasting 
happiness and misery. Tillotson. —To leap; to jump 
over. 
That hand which had the strength, ev’n at your door. 
To cudgel you, and make you take the hatch. Shakspeare. 
To assume. 
Fit you to the custom. 
And take t’ye as your predecessors have, 
Your honour with your form. Shakspeare. 
To allow; to admit.—I took your weak excuses. Dryden. 
To receive with fondness. 
I lov’d you still, and 
Took you into my bosom. Dryden. 
To carry out for use.—He commanded them that they 
should afa/ce nothing for their journey, savea staff. St. Mark. 
—To suppose; to receive in thought; to entertain in 
opinion. 
This I take it 
Is the main motive of our preparations. Shakspeare. 
To separate for one’s self from any quantity ; to remove 
for one’s self from any place.—Four heifers from his female 
store he took. Dryden. —Not to leave; not to omit.—The 
discourse here is about ideas, which he says are real things, 
and we see in God : in taking this along with me, to make 
it prove any thing to his purpose, the argument must stand 
thus. Locke. —To receive payments.—Never a wife leads 
a better life than she does; do what she will, take all, pay- 
all. Shakspeare. —To obtain by mensuration.—With a 
two foot rule in his hand measuring my walls, he took the 
dimensions of the room. Swift. —To withdraw.—Honey¬ 
comb, on the verge of threescore, took me aside, and asked 
me, whether I would advise him to marry ? Spectator. — 
To seize with a transitory impulse; to affect so as not to 
last.—Tiberius, noted for his niggardly temper, only gave 
his attendants their diet; but once he was taken with a fit of 
generosity, and divided them into three classes. Arbuthnot. 
—To comprise ; to comprehend.—We always take the 
account of a future state into our schemes about the concerns 
of this world. Atterbury. —To have recourse to.—A spar¬ 
row took a bush just as au eagle made a stoop at an hare. 
L'Estrange. —To produce ; or suffer to be produced_No 
purposes whatsoever which are meant for the good of that 
land will prosper, or take good effect. Spenser. —To catch 
in the mind.—These do best who take material hints to be 
judged by history. Locke. —To hire; to rent. 
If three ladies like a luckless play, 
Take the whole house upon the poet’s day. Pope, 
To engage in; to be active in. 
Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours; 
Be now the father, and propose a son; 
Behold yourself so by a son disdain’d; 
And then imagine me taking your part. 
And in your pow’r so silencing your son. Shakspeare. 
Jo incur; to receive as it happens. 
Now take your turn ; and, as a brother should. 
Attend your brother to the Stygian flood. Dryden. 
To admit in copulation. 
Five hundred asses yearly took the horse. 
Producing mules of greater speed and force. Sandys. 
To catch eagerly. 
Drances took the word; who grudg’d, long since, 
The rising glories of the Daunian prince. Dryden. 
To use as an oath or expression.—Thou shalt not take the 
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