Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Betake

Betake ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Prefix be- + take.]

1.
To take or seize. [Obsolete] — Spenser
2.
To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
They betook themselves to treaty and submission. — Burke
The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. — Milton
Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? — Milton
3.
To commend or intrust to; to commit to. [Obsolete]