<OL TYPE="1"><LI>to take to, to take with one's self, to join to one's self<OL TYPE="a"><LI>an associate, a companion<LI>metaph.<OL TYPE="1"><LI>to accept or acknowledge one to be such as he professes to be<LI>not to reject, not to withhold obedience</OL></OL><LI>to receive something transmitted<OL TYPE="a"><LI>an office to be discharged<LI>to receive with the mind<OL TYPE="1"><LI>by oral transmission: of the authors from whom the tradition proceeds<LI>by the narrating to others, by instruction of teachers (used of disciples)</OL></OL></OL>