take place
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take place
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A verb phrase, with place functioning as the direct object of the transitive verb take.
verb takes place · taking place · took place · taken place
- To happen or to occur. Unfortunately, the meeting never took place.
- To take precedence or priority. I know him a notorious liar, / Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; / Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him, / That they take place, when virtue’s steely bones / Look bleak i’ the cold wind […]
- To take effect; to prevail. But he to shifte their curious request, / Gan causen, why she could not come in place; / Her crased helth, her late recourse to rest, / And humid euening ill for sicke folkes cace, / But none of those excuses could take place; / Ne would they eate, till she in presence came.
- To sit in a particular location, take one's place. King Henry VIII takes place under the cloth of state; Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius sit under him as judges. Queen Katharine takes place some distance from King Henry VIII.
