(e) 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.
(f) 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.
(g) 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.
(h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
(i) 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.
(k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; — with from; as, to take the
breath from one; to take two from four.
2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to
acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: —
(a) 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.