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name of the Lord in vain. Exodus. —To seize as a disease. 
•—They that come abroad after these showers, are commonly 
taken with sickness. Bacon. 
To Take away. To deprive of. 
Not foes nor fortune takes this pow’r away, 
And is my Abelard less kind than they. Pope. 
To Take away. To set aside : to remove.—If we take 
away consciousness of pleasure and pain, it will be hard to 
know wherein to place personal identity. Locke. 
To Take care. To be careful ; to be solicitous for ; to 
superintend.—Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth 
out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen ? 1 Cor. 
To Take care. To be cautious ; to be vigilant. 
To Take course. To have recourse to measures.— 
They meant to take a course to deal with particulars by re¬ 
concilements, and cared not for any head. Bacon. 
To Take down. To crush; to reduce ; to suppress.— 
Take down their mettle, keep them lean and bare. Dry- 
den. 
To Take down. To swallow; to take by the mouth.— 
We cannot take down the lives of living creatures, which 
some of the Paracelsians say, if they could be taken down, 
would make us immortal; the next for subtilty of operation, 
to take bodies putrefied, such as may be easily taken. Ba¬ 
con. 
To Take from. To derogate; to detract.—It takes not 
from you, that you were born with principals of generosity; 
but it adds to you that you have cultivated nature. Dry- 
den. 
To Take from. To deprive of.—Conversation will add 
to their knowledge, but be too apt to take from their virtue. 
Locke. 
To Take heed. To be cautious ; to beware. 
Take heed lest passion 
Sway thy judgment to do ought. Milton. 
To Take heed to. To attend.—Nothing sweeter than 
to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord. Ec- 
clus. 
To Take in. To inclose.—Upon the sea-coast are par¬ 
cels of land that would pay well for the taking in. Mor¬ 
timer. 
To Take in. To lessen; to contract: as, he took in his 
ils. 
To Take in. To cheat; to gull: as the cunning ones 
were taken in. A low vulgar phrase. 
To Take in hand. To undertake.—Till there were a 
perfect reformation, nothing would prosper that they took in 
hand. Clarendon. 
To Take in. To comprise; to comprehend.—This love 
of our country takes in our families, friends, and acquaint¬ 
ance. Addison. 
To Take in. To admit. 
Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me, 
I have a soul, that, like an ample shield. 
Can take in all; and verge enough for more. Dry den. 
To Take in. To win by conquest.—Open places are 
easily taken in, and towns not strongly fortified make but 
a weak resistance. Felton. 
To Take in. To receive locally.—That which men 
take in by education is next to that which is natural. Til- 
lotson. 
To Tak e in. To receive mentally.—A man can never 
have taken in his full measure of knowledge before he is 
hurried off the stage. Addison. 
To Take notice. To observe. 
'To Take notice. To show by an act that observation is 
made.—Some laws restrained the extravagant power of the 
nobility, the diminution whereof they took very heavily, 
though at that time they took little notice of it. Claren¬ 
don. 
To Take oath. To swear.—The king of Babylon is 
come to Jerusalem, and hath taken of the king’s seed, and 
of him taken an oath. Ezekiel. 
K E. 
To Take of. To invalidate; to destroy; to remove. 
When it is immediately followed by from, without an accu¬ 
sative, it may be considered either as elliptically suppressing 
the accusative, or as being neutral. 
You must forsake this room and go with us; 
Your power and your command is taken off, 
And Cassio rules in Cyprus. ' Shakspeare. 
To Take of. To withhold; to withdraw.—He has ta¬ 
ken you of, by a peculiar instance of his mercy, from the 
vanities and temptations of the world. Wake. 
To Take off. To swallow.—Were the pleasure of drink¬ 
ing accompanied, the moment a man takes off his glass, 
with -that sick stomach which, in some men, follows not 
many hours after, nobody would let wine touch his lips. 
Locke. 
To Take o f To purchase. 
To Take off. To copy.— Take off all their models in 
wood. Addison. 
To Take off. To find place for.—The multiplying of 
nobility brings a state to necessity; and in like manner, 
when more are bred scholars than preferments can take off. 
Bacon. 
To Take of. To remove.—When Moses went in, he 
took the veil off until he came out. Exod. 
To Take on. See To Take upon. 
To Take order with. To check; to take course with._ 
Though he would have turned his teeth upon Spain, yet he 
was taken order with before it came to that. Bacon. 
To Take out. To remove from within any place. 
Griefs are green; 
And all thy friends which thou must make thy friends 
Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out. 
Shakspeare. 
To Take part. To share.— Take part in rejoicing for 
the victory over the Turks. Pope. 
To Take place. To prevail; to have effect. 
Where arms take place, all other pleas are vain; 
Love taught me force, and force shall love maintain. 
Dryden. 
To Take up. To borrow upon credit or interest._I 
have anticipated already, and taken up from Boccace before 
I come to him. Dryden. 
To Take up. To be ready for; to engage with. 
His divisions are, one power against the French, 
And one against Glendower; perforce, a third 
Must take up us. Shakspeare. 
To Take up. To apply to the use of. 
We took up arms not to revenge ourselves, 
But free the commonwealth. Addison. 
To Take up. To begin.—They shall take up a lamenta¬ 
tion for me. Ezelc. 
To Take up. To fasten with a ligature passed under. 
A term of chirurgery.—A large vessel opened by incision 
must be taken up before you proceed. Sharp. 
To Take up. To engross; to engage. 
Take my esteem. 
If from my heart you ask, or hope for more, 
I grieve the place is taken up before. Dryden. 
To Take up. To have final recourse to. — Arnobius 
asserts, that men of the finest parts and learning, rhetoricians, 
lawyers, physicians, despising the sentiments they had been 
once fond of, took up their rest in the Christian religion. 
Addison. 
To Take up. To seize; to catch; to arrest.—I was 
taken up for laying them down. Shakspeare. 
To Take up. To admit.—The ancients took up experi¬ 
ments upon credit, and did build great matters upon them. 
Bacon. 
To Take up. To answer by reproving; to reprimand. 
—And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for 
swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him, and mi°-ht 
not spend them at my pleasure. Shakspeare. 
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