take check

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Verb[edit]

take check (third-person singular simple present takes check, present participle taking check, simple past took check, past participle taken check)

  1. (obsolete, idiomatic) To take offence.
    • 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
      Say I shou'd wed her, wou'd not my wife subjects
      Take check, and think it strange?
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