betake's Usage Examples:

A provision was made that if, after waiting a year at Venice, they were unable to go to Jerusalem, this part of the vow should be cancelled and they should at once betake themselves to Rome.

What do you propose to do about it; make him take a vow of celibacy?A provision was made that if, after waiting a year at Venice, they were unable to go to Jerusalem, this part of the vow should be cancelled and they should at once betake themselves to Rome.

As regards Vincent he himself tells us that only after long and sad experience of worldly turmoil did he betake himself to the haven of a religious life.

The few books accessible to him he almost learned by heart; and, seeing that there was no chance of increasing his stock of knowledge in his native place, he resolved to betake himself to Moscow.

His chief function was connected with the sacred lot to which the Meccans were accustomed to betake themselves in all matters of difficulty.

3 A few years of drought or of bad seasons would make a Hebrew settler betake himself to the old Canaanite gods.

betake was the work to which Owen now betook himself.

In consequence of these transactions, he was suffered to betake himself unharmed to Venice.

That the agent was acting entirely on his own responsibility may be doubted; for within a few months Erasmus had decided to betake himself to Basel, bearing with him Seneca and Jerome, the latter to be incorporated in the great edition which Johannes Amerbach and Froben had had in hand since 15ro.