English

Verb

withtake ‎(third-person singular simple present withtakes, present participle withtaking, simple past withtook, past participle withtaken)

1. (transitive, archaic) To rebuke; reprimand.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To withhold; retain.
3. (transitive) To receive; accept; (often reflexive) To take along; take with.
   • 1909, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by command:

     [...] and if the people of the said cities and towns will not or are not able to maintain them they shall withtake themselves to other towns and cities within the hundred, or to the town where they were born, and shall there continually abide during their life.

   • 1961, Pierre Esprit Radisson, Arthur T. Adams, The explorations of Pierre Esprit Radisson:

     Not desiring to be discovered, we found a fair road close by a wood, withtook ourselves out of it with all haste, and went towards a village.

   • 1994, J. P. Donleavy, A Singular Man:

     "[...] Luckily the general structure withtook the shock and only the ceiling collapsed."

Derived terms

• withtaken
• withtaking