TAKE

1. To lay hold of; to gain or re- ceive into possession; to seize; to deprive one of the possession of; to assume ownership. Thus, it is a constitutional provision that a man's property shall not be taken for pub- lic uses without just compensation. 9 Ind. 433. 2. To obtain or assume possession of a chattel unlawfully, and without the owner's consent; to appropriate things to one's own use with felonious intent. Thus, an actual taking is essential to constitute larceny. 4 Bl. Comm. 430. 3. To seize or apprehend a person; to arrest the body of a person by virtue of lawful process. Thus, a capias commands the of- ficer to take the body of the defendant. 4. To acquire the title to an estate; to re- ceive an estate in lands from another per- son by virtue of some species of title. Thus, one is said to "take by purchase," "take by descent," "take a life-interest under the de- vise," etc. 5. To receive the verdict of a jury; to su- perintend the delivery of a verdict; to hold a court. The commission of assize in England empowers the judges to take the assizes; that is, according to its ancient meaning, to take the verdict of a peculiar species of jury called an "assize;" but, in its present mean- ing, "to hold the assizes." 3 Bl. Comm. 59, 185.

1. To lay hold of; to gain or receive into possession; to seize; to deprive one of the possession of; to assume ownership. Thus, it is a constitutional provision that a man’s property shall not be taken for public uses without just compensation. Evyansville & C. R. Co. vy. Dick, 9 Ind. 433. 2. To obtain or assume possession of a chattel unlawfully, and without the owner’s consent; to appropriate things to one’s own use with felonious intent. Thus, an actual taking is essential to constitute larceny. 4 Bl. Comm. 430. 3. To seize or apprehend a person; to arrest the body of a person by virtue of lawful Own hands. s

手 ​1 The Equitable Tables were made by the Equitable Insurance Company of London, from data collected by the company in the transaction of its business. The Sweden Tables are based upon returns collected between 1755 and 1776, corrected by returns made between 1775 and 1805, from the population of the whole of Sweden and Finland. Finlaison's Tables were constructed, about 1825, by John Finlaison, actuary of the National Debt Office of England, from observations upon 25,000 life annuities of the English government, from about 1795 to 1825. McKean's Tables, first issued in 1837, were prepared by Alexander McKean, actuary, of London. Wigglesworth's Tables were framed by a Dr. Wigglesworth, from observations made in New England. Bland's Tables were arranged by Chancellor Bland, of Maryland, from various other tables.) With its inflections, has its popular, a quasi or a wholly technical sense. 1. In the sense of being entitled to, procuring, acquiring, obtaining, receiving, accepting, reserving, is of frequent use. As in the expressions: take a note; take by descent, by purchase, by devise, by will; take up a lease, or claim; take out a copyright, a patent, a caveat; take possession; take an oath; take words in their popular sense; take effect; take a rule, a nonsuit, an exception, a bill pro confesso, a verdict, a judgment, an appeal, a writ of error. That it will "take" all one's property to pay his debts means it will require all." In a statute providing than an estate by curtesy should not "be liable to be taken" for the debts of the husband, "taken" was held to mean taken in invitum.8 11 Story, Eq. § 413. 2 See at length Marsh v. Lee, 1 Lead. Cas. Eq. *61129, cases; 1 W. & T. ib. 853-80, cases; 2 Pom. Eq. § 768; 10 Conn. 251; 29 id. 324; 1 Johns. Ch. 399; 1 Dall. 153; 11 S. & R. 223; 30 Pa. 378; 13 Vt. 309. 3 F. taille, a cutting. 42 Bl. Com. 112. 5 Brann v. Elzey, 83 Ky. 442-43 (1885). 1 Washb. R. P. 92-111; 4 Kent, 13-23. * King v. Kent, 29 Ala. 555 (1857). * Briggs v. Titus, 13 R. I. 138 (1880). Power in a bank to "take" realty in payment of debts includes power to sell the same again.¹ Reserving interest as discount is the same as taking interest. But where there is a penalty, actual receipt is necessary.2 Taker. The "first taker" under a will is presumed to have been a favorite of the deceased. See DEVISE, Executory. 2. To take up a bill or note is to pay the amount thereof, and receive the paper back; to retire the bill or note by paying it or substituting other paper for it. See RENEWAL;

Taken. Chaucer.

In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey. Hence, specifically: -- To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like. This man was taken of the Jews. Acts xxiii. 27. Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. Pope. They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with sickness. Bacon. There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood. Shak. To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Prov. vi. 25. Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience. Wake. I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. Moore. To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right. Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken. 1 Sam. xiv. 42. The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying . . . of sinners. Hammond. To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat. This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments. I. Watts. To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person. Beauty alone could beauty take so right. Dryden. 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. 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. To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church. 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. To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: -- 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. To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine. Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence. 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. 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. 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 or refresh one's self. -- To take care, to exercise care or vigilance; to be solicitous. "Doth God take care for oxen" 1 Cor. ix. 9. -- To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care for; to superintend or oversee. -- To take down. (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down." Goldsmith. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them. -- To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and Fire. -- To take ground to the right or to the left (Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops, to the right or left. -- To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be encouraged. -- To take heed, to be careful or cautious. "Take heed what doom against yourself you give." Dryden. -- To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy ways. -- To take hold of, to seize; to fix on. -- To take horse, to mount and ride a horse. -- To take in. (a) To inclose; to fence. (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail. (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water. (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.] For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. Chapman. To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions." I. Watts. (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take. [Eng.] -- To take in hand. See under Hand. -- To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an oath. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." Ex. xx. 7. -- To take issue. See under Issue. -- To take leave. See Leave, n., 2. -- To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription. -- To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular attention. -- To take notice of. See under Notice. -- To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner. -- To take off. (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to take off one's hat. (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb. (c) To destroy; as, to take off life. (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of an argument. (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away. Locke. (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine. To purchase; to take in trade. "The Spaniards having no commodities that we will take off." Locke. (h) To copy; to reproduce. "Take off all their models in wood." Addison. (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate. (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars than preferments can take off. [R.] Bacon. -- To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility. -- To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice. -- To take order for. See under Order. -- To take order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.] Bacon. -- To take orders. (a) To receive directions or commands. (b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See Order, n., 10. -- To take out. (a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct. (b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot from cloth. (c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent. (d) To put an end to; as, to take the conceit out of a man. (e) To escort; as, to take out to dinner. -- To take over, to undertake; to take the management of. [Eng.] Cross (Life of G. Eliot). -- To take part, to share; as, they take part in our rejoicing. -- To take part with, to unite with; to join with. -- To take place, root, sides, stock, etc. See under Place, Root, Side, etc. -- To take the air. (a) (Falconry) To seek to escape by trying to rise higher than the falcon; -- said of a bird. (b) See under Air. -- To take the field. (Mil.) See under Field. -- To take thought, to be concerned or anxious; to be solicitous. Matt. vi. 25, 27. -- To take to heart. See under Heart. -- To take to task, to reprove; to censure. -- to take to the air, to take off. To take up. (a) To lift; to raise. Hood. (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank. (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. Ezek. xix. 1. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of room. (f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian religion." Addison. (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds. (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.] The ancients took up experiments upon credit. Bacon. To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate. One of his relations took him up roundly. L'Estrange. To begin where another left off; to keep up in continuous succession. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale. Addison. To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors; to take up current opinions. "They take up our old trade of conquering." Dryden. (m) To comprise; to include. "The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite . . . takes up seven years." Dryden. (n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. Ps. xxvii. To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take up a contribution. "Take up commodities upon our bills." Shak. (p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank. (q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as, to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack thread in sewing. (r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a quarrel. [Obs.] Shak. -- To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above. -- To take upon one's self. (a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof. (b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon one's self a punishment. -- To take up the gauntlet. See under Gauntlet.

To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take. Shak. When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise. Bacon. In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect. Bacon. To please; to gain reception; to succeed. Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And hint he writ it, if the thing should take. Addison. To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well. To take after. (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a good pattern. (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father. -- To take in with, to resort to. [Obs.] Bacon. -- To take on, to be violently affected; to express grief or pain in a violent manner. -- To take to. (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to evil practices. "If he does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him." Walpole. To resort to; to betake one's self to. "Men of learning, who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world." Addison. -- To take up. (a) To stop. [Obs.] "Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of religion." Tillotson. (b) To reform. [Obs.] Locke. -- To take up with. (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain fare. "In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities." I. Watts. (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. [Obs.] L'Estrange. -- To take with, to please. Bacon.

To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. | To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. | To seize or capture. | To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. | To catch or get possession of (fish or game). | To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. | To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it. | To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. | To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off. | To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. | To exact. | To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. | To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game. | To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given). | To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given). | To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation. | To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given). | To accept and follow (advice, etc.). | To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given). | To receive into some relationship. | To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given). | To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir). | To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given). | To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right). | To remove. | To remove. | To remove or end by death; to kill. | To remove. | To subtract. | To have sex with. | To defeat (someone or something) in a fight. | To grasp or grip. | To select or choose; to pick. | To select or choose; to pick. | To adopt (select) as one's own. | To carry or lead (something or someone). | To carry or lead (something or someone). | To transport or carry; to convey to another place. | To carry or lead (something or someone). | To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching. | To carry or lead (something or someone). | To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around. | To carry or lead (something or someone). | To escort or conduct (a person). | To carry or lead (something or someone). | To go. | To use as a means of transportation. | To obtain for use by payment or lease. | To obtain for use by payment or lease. | To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription. | To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest. | To consume (food or drink). | To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to. | To experience or feel. | To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure). | To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage). | To participate in. | To cause to change to a specified state or condition. | To regard in a specified way. | To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind. | To understand (especially in a specified way). | To believe, to accept the statements of. | To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider. | To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something). | To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source. | To catch or contract (an illness, etc.). | To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation). | To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of. | To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.). | To let in (water). | To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome). | To proceed to fill. | To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space). | To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time). | To avail oneself of; to exploit. | To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do. | To assume or perform (a form or role). | To assume (a form). | To assume or perform (a form or role). | To perform (a role). | To assume or perform (a form or role). | To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.). | To bind oneself by. | To go into, through, or along. | To go into, through, or along. | To go or move into. | To have and use one's recourse to. | To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry. | To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing. | To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something). | To make a picture, photograph, etc. of (a person, scene, etc.). | To obtain money from, especially by swindling. | To apply oneself to the study of. | To deal with. | To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example. | To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass. | To accept as an input to a relation. | To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.). | To accept as an input to a relation. | To accept (zero or more arguments). | To buy. | To get or accept (something) into one's possession. | To engage, take hold or have effect. | To engage, take hold or have effect. | To adhere or be absorbed properly. | To engage, take hold or have effect. | To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold. | To engage, take hold or have effect. | To catch; to engage. | To engage, take hold or have effect. | To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people. | To become; to be affected in a specified way. | To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed. | An intensifier. | To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone). | To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit. | To visit; to include in a course of travel. | To portray in a painting. | Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.

The or an act of taking. | Something that is taken; a haul. | Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits; takings. | Something that is taken; a haul. | The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch. | An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position. | An approach, a (distinct) treatment. | A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene. | A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period. | A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event. | An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination. | A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper). | The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.