Definition of "betaking" [betaking]

• Present participle of betake. (verb)

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• "County and city officials were ordered to list men between the ages of eighteen and fifty and select from them able-bodied men “found loitering and neglecting to labor for reasonable wages; all who run from their habitations, leaving wives or children without suitable means for their subsistence, and all other idle, vagrant, or dissolute persons, wandering abroad without betaking themselves to some lawful employment.”"
• "But when a man is vexed with what he finds indoors, he goeth forth and rids his soul of its disgust, betaking him to some friend or comrade of like age; whilst we must needs regard his single self."
• "Advice, in betaking himself to some vertuous Woman in Marriage."