Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Betake

/bēt-āk'/ · Be·take · IPA /bɪˈteɪk/

01 v. t. To take or seize.

imp. Betook; p. p. Betaken; p. pr. & vb. n. Betaking

1.
To take or seize.[Obs.]
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.[Obs.]