Definition of "taken" []

• Past participle of take. (verb)

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• "Said boy was taken up by Thomas Walton, and says _he was free_, and that his parents live near Shawneetown, Illinois, and that he was _taken_ from that place in July 1836; says his father's name is William, and his mother's Sally Brown, and that they moved from Fredericksburg,"
• "” But, sir, the very moment we had taken up arms in their defense, it was discovered that all these were mere “fictions of the brain”; and that the whole number in the State of Massachusetts was but eleven; and that even these had been “taken by mistake."
• ""You've taken a mouthful out of my flask; not _taken_ it, certainly, but it went over your tongue all the same."