Betake
Pronunciation : Be*take"
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Pref. be- + take.]
Definition : 1. To take or seize. [Obs.] 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. [Obs.]
t. [imp. Betook; p. p. Betaken; p. pr. & vb. n. Betaking.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913