betake means to take over to; take across (to); deliver. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
betake is pronounced /bɪˈteɪk/.
Etymology
From Middle English bitaken, equivalent to be- + take. Cognate with Danish betage (“to take, deprive, cut off”), Swedish beta (“to take, deprive, cut off”).
verb
- To take over to; take across (to); deliver.
- To seize; lay hold of; take.“a rain-cloud [...] had betaken a dusky brown color, and about its lower verge a fringe of fine straight lines of rain was suggested [...].”
- To take oneself to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse.“One morning as I lay in my bed, a ſtrong motion vvas ſuddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London; I aroſe and betook me to the vvay, […]”
- To commit to a specified action.
- To commend or entrust to; to commit to.
- To take oneself.“Then do no further goe, no further stray, / But here lie downe, and to thy rest betake, / Th'ill to preuent, that life ensewen may. / For what hath life, that may it loued make, / And giues not rather cause it to forsake?”