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Meaning of ontake | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. To take on; undertake; assume.
    transitive
  2. To undertake a debt.
    UK, dialectal, transitive

Examples

“In 1413 he entered into a bond of manrent at Dundee, with the earl of Crawford, that he, the said Sir Patrick," is becumyn man of special retinue till the said earl, for the term of his life, nane ontaken but amitie and allegiance till our lord the king, [...]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

ontologise ontologised ontologises ontologising ontologize ontologized

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