betake

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: be=take

CIDE DICTIONARY

betake, v. t. [Pref. be- + take.].

•  To take or seize.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
•  To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun.  [1913 Webster]

  "They betook themselves to treaty and submission."  [1913 Webster]

  "The rest, in imitation, to like arms
  Betook them."  [1913 Webster]

  "Whither shall I betake me, where subsist?"  [1913 Webster]
•  To commend or intrust to; to commit to.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

betake, v.refl. (past betook; past part. betaken) (foll. by to) go to (a place or person).