(f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this
consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery.
Tillotson. (g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to
have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; —
used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a
resolution; I take the liberty to say.
(h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
(i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
Chaucer. (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; — with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: —
(a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.
Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer.
Num. xxxv. 31.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore.
1 Tim. v. 10. (b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
(c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
(d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will
take an affront from no man.
(e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to
entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take
a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.
You take me right.
Bacon.
Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science love of God and our neighbor.
Wake.
[He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise.
South.
You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
Tate. (f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; —
used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.
I take thee at thy word.
Rowe.
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
Not take the mold.
Dryden. To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air, etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc.
— To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim. — To take along, to carry, lead, or convey. —
To take arms, to commence war or hostilities. — To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause
deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes of bishops. "By your own law, I take
your life away." Dryden. — To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe or rest; to recruit
