Meaning of take air | Babel Free

Definitions

To be divulged; to be made public.

idiomatic, obsolete

Examples

“[T]his secret having taken air, the old Israelite had contrived a scheme to separate them for ever; and they being apprized of his intention, had found means to elope from his house […].”

“The purchase proved fatal; the Jew's family soon died of the plague: the news took air, and the house was burnt, but the infection could not be restrained; it spread, and continued to rage with great violence […].”

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