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(b-fôɴ), Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de 1707-1788.
(b-fôɴ), Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de 1707-1788. French naturalist whose monumental Histoire Naturelle (36 volumes, 1749-1788) provided encyclopedic coverage of vertebrate biology, geology, and mineralogy and was renowned for its elegant style.
- take the occasion
- take the piss out of
- take the plunge
- take the pulse of
- take the rap
- take the wind out of (one's) sails
- take the wind out of one's sails
- take the wind out of sails
- take time
- take to
- take to heart
- take to heels
- take to (one's) heels
- take to one's heels
- take to task
- take to the cleaners
- take to the woodshed
- take up
- take-up
- take up for
- take up the cudgels
- take up with
- take wing
- take word for it
- takfir