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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8601 Þatt ȝer þatt he wass takenn ut. Þurrh drihhtin godd fra manne.

c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 20 Þat [read þaȝ] he ne toke iudas out, Þe worste man on erþe.

1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros ii. xxxvii. 49 Sutton this losse thou well mayst recompense, Taking out wordes and putting in some sense.

1650 T. Grantham Oct. 22 1649 2 The Grammers..were some of them almost as bigge as a Church-Bible, if you take out the Apocrypha and Common-Prayer.

1699 tr. J. Le Clerc Refl. Lotteries 51 This was not the thing They meant by it, as will quickly appear, if we take out the Word Fortune, and substitute that of Providence in its stead.

1703 Law of Errors & Writs of Errors iii. 11 Go with it to the Clerk of the Errors, who will take out the Judgment with the Debt and Costs of Suit, in his Book of remembrance for Bail.

1757 L. Carter Diary 28 Aug. (1965) I. 171 By the weight of a bushel of wheat ground yesterday without any toll taken out I found only 37 pounds clear of bran.

1832 Leigh Peerage II. 65 Did you not state before the Attorney General that entries of marriages had been taken out?

1878 Homœopathic World July 312 Let him take out the chapters on Diseases of Infants and Children and publish them separately.

1916 Copper Curb & Mining Outlook 20 Sept. 22/3 Last week's cleanup averaged $2½ a ton profit, even after taking out the overhead costs.

1955 N. Mailer Let. 25 Aug. in N.Y. Rev. Bks. (1999) 26 Feb. 22/3 Whenever a publisher wants you to take out something, it always ends up being the most important thing in the book.

1994 Washington Post 4 Oct. 11/1 Even if you took out those parts that dealt with issues such as medical education.., it would still have been a very complex bill.

1560 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 2nd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont 8 (heading) To take out the wrinkles of the face.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 47 The decoction will..take out any stain in cloths, euen the very iron-mole.

1698 Æsop return'd from Tunbridge i. 2 Not the fam'd Waters they were at, Cou'd e're take out the Stain.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. ix. 12 Money..is the true Fuller's Earth for Reputations, there is not a Spot or a Stain but what it can take out.

1743 E. Moxon Eng. Housewifry (new ed.) 47 Take five or six salt Herrings, wash them very well, lay them in a pretty Quantity of Water all Night to take out the saltness.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 329 If the work be so smoothed as to take out the marks of the tools by which the stones were first cut, it is called plane-ashlar.

1864 Dental Q. Dec. 81 Press the foil into all the depressions, taking out the wrinkles.

1909 A. Ben-Yûsuf Art Millinery xiv. 220 Hair and tuscan braids can be cleaned with ivory soap and water only, and stains taken out with oxalic acid.

1980 Laurence (Kansas) Jrnl.-World 2 Oct. 4/5 You can't use the chemical they supply for your laundry to take out rust because it can't be used on colors.

1992 J. Mowry Way Past Cool 77 Lyon combed long fingers gently through Curtis' dreads to take out the tangles.

1900 C. L. Cullen Tales of Ex-tanks ii. 45 The squat man..made a punching bag of the lanky chap from the start of the ten-round go, and the gang was shouting all the time, ‘Take him out!’

1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep ii. 26 I'll take him out... He'll think a bridge fell on him.

1955 Times 28 June 4/4 The purpose of the attack was to ‘take out’—as the strategist's jargon has it—the docks.

1967 J. M. Fox Dead Pigeon 170 ‘He took out two people who could have involved him.’.. ‘Took out? You mean he killed them?’

1975 B. Dylan Hurricane (song) in Lyrics (2006) 356 Rubin could take a man out with just one punch.

1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 20 June a7/2 Helicopters..were called on to take out the worst sniper nests.

2002 Focus May 26/1 We've all seen spy movies where the assassin takes out his target with a single shot.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms lxviii. 15 Tac me out fro clei, that I be not inficchid.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 20564 I toke þaim vte on [c1450 BL. Add. with] mi right hand.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 1 Whan that oure lorde..had take oute Adam and Eve, and other [from hell].

1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. iv. f. vi He thrust his hande in to his bosome and toke it out. And beholde, his hand was leporous.

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxii. 196 You may take them out aliue with your holdfasts or clampes.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 334 Their stings and teeth newly tane out. View more context for this quotation

1696 Whole Duty of Woman (ed. 2) x. 172 Put it into a moderate hot Oven, and when the Icing begins to rise, take it out.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 94. ¶9 He had only dipped his Head into the Water, and immediately taken it out again.

1796 Hull Advertiser 24 Sept. 4/3 When the curd is come..take it out with a soil-dish altogether.

1806 ‘Ignotus’ Culina (ed. 3) 182 Stew it till quite tender... When sufficiently tendered, take out the bones.

1889 F. M. Crawford Greifenstein II. xx. 280 Rex took out his purse and gave him a gold piece.

1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xiv. 137 I've moved the bureau and I've taken out the drawers and I've looked in every crack and cranny.

1955 A. C. Smith Speaking Eye iii. 33 He took out a pocket comb and ran it through his dark wavy hair.

2004 S. Quigley Run for Home (2005) iii. 56 She opened a drawer and took out a small clear plastic bag.

1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiv. 237 The Stop-screw, to take out when the Hollow Axis moves in the Moving Collar.

1748 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 121/1 The upper part of the loops..is made to take out.

1834 Hobart Town Mag. Apr. 93 Mind and wait till all is quiet. You know the window, Fellows—it takes out easily.

1842 Examiner 15 Jan. 40/2 The nozzle takes out easily, and is effectually cleaned by a short immersion in hot water.

1908 Poultry Keeper Dec. 331/2 The canvas opening is..made to take out in summer time.

1753 R. Masters Hist. Coll. Corpus Christi Cambr. i. 41 The Master and Fellows..usually met as directed once in a year to choose Keepers and to take out such Books as they wanted for their reading.

1775 2nd Pt. Catal. Bks. Libr. Company Philadelphia 4 If the book or books should belong to a set, then such person shall deposit treble the value of the volume or volumes which he shall so take out.

1827 Mechanics' Mag. 16 June 375/1 Any member paying the sum of ten shillings..shall be exempt from the deposit of five shillings on taking out a book from the library.

1871 Harper's Mag. Dec. 136/2 Mrs. Reed and her family undoubtedly took out the new novel from Mudie's, and sympathized in a fat, sentimental way with the sufferings of the young governess [sc. Jane Eyre].

1890 Library Dec. 466 During the year ending the 30th of last month, 3,303 volumes had been taken out, and it was to be hoped read.

1922 H. N. Morse Country Church in Industr. Zones v. 44 Any one is permitted to take out books, but a membership fee of fifty cents a year is desired.

2004 J. C. Oates I am No One you Know ii. 128 Every Saturday she'd return books to the library and take out more books.

1757 A. G. Impetuous Lover I. v. 82 Mr. Charles..promised them to take out his gun, and make their house in his way.

1830 L. Lloyd Field Sports North of Europe I. xxi. 370 The angling is not remarkably good... From personal experience, however, I can say but little, as I never took out my rod on more than one occasion.

1877 In Memoriam H.M.M.S. 13 Nina was betrayed into a rather unusual fit of temper because the maid rather abruptly prevented her taking out her hoop.

1919 W. D. Croft Three Years with 9th (Scottish) Div. vii. 102 In order to keep warm every platoon took out a football and every man in the battalion had to play.

1951 Pop. Photogr. Jan. 51/2 When good ideas come to you.., jot them down so you won't forget the next time you take out your camera.

1986 K. Miles Bullet Hole vii. 159 I drew up a mental list of people to see and questions to ask next day, then took out my clubs. Two hours of practising in the field helped to rid my mind of fear and confusion.

1998 B. Malone Learning from Land vii. 58 In Wisconsin, you..don't take out your sled or hockey stick in July or your roller blades in January.

1838 Bell's Life in London 23 Sept. E. Napier and C. Taylor Esqrs., making an excellent stand, the former scoring 30, taking out his bat.

1840 Observer 6 July 1/4 Mr Taylor taking out his bat after obtaining 35 in beautiful style.

1890 Standard 9 May 3/8 He was batting nearly four hours and eventually took out his bat for 90.

1910 Scotsman 13 July 14/5 Hardinge..took his bat out for 41, getting his runs in neat style.

1976 N. S. Ramaswami Indian Cricket vi. 47 Nazar Mohammed was prominent.., taking out his bat for 124 after spending 517 minutes at the crease.

2011 Kent & Sussex Courier (Nexis) 15 July 70 Sam Stickler added an unbroken 58 with Cooper, who took out his bat after a memorable display of pyrotechnics.

1919 Jrnl. Industr. Hygiene Sept. 239/1 There was a cafeteria not far from the works, where they could go for lunch or could get food to take out.

1934 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 1 Dec. 7/3 (advt.) Chow mein—Eat here or take out.

1974 Los Angeles Times 31 Oct. (Centinela South Bay section) vii. 7/6 Businessmen's luncheons and family dinners... Eat in or take out, they invite.

1995 A. Hardy Where to eat in Canada 69 The soups..are great and so are the cheese twists, which you can buy to take out.

2012 M. Stewart Home for Summer 248 I stopped in for coffee to take out, but I saw Clay here and decided to stay and help him eat his breakfast.

a1529 J. Skelton Ware Hawke in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. B.vii^v Of the spirituall law They made but a gew gaw And toke it outen drynke.

1602 Extremities Vrging Sir F. Veare to Anti-parle 11 They did not forbeare eating fish, eggs, and such ionkets..taking out in Clarret wine what they lacked in meate.

1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. ii. 17 Because of the old proverbe, What they want in meate, let them take out in drinke.

1735 H. Jacob Wks. 123 When Tom, your Butler, brought the Wine, You meant it, to inrich my Brain, And take it out in Rhimes again.

1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 14 When he frequented our town of a market-day, he has taken out a guinea in oaths.

1828 Examiner 794/1 [He] has no objection, when a poor tradesman cannot advance the fee, to take it out in goods.

1891 Rev. of Reviews 15 Sept. 236/2 The prize was one guinea, which had to be taken out in books.

1909 N.Y. Observer 7 Jan. 14/1 ‘Give us a bottle o' that pop water and take the rest out in apples,’ said one man, handing me a yen note.

1922 McClure's Mag. Nov. 51/1 ‘You owe me..$12.75.’ ‘All right.., but you'll have to take it out in trade.’

2012 J. A. Jance Left for Dead ii. 16 Chico owed me money. Quite a bit of money, and I agreed to take it out in trade.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiv. i. 240 Iulianus..when he had taken out his rest and sleepe in the night, commaundeth the trumpets to sound the march.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd 217 I will goe downe and stand at the doore, that my Master may take out his full sleepe.

1690 T. Shadewell Amorous Bigotte v. ii. 43 Bern. Why sirrah, are you in a dead sleep? Diego Oh, oh, I was, Sir, till you were pleas'd to call me to life, but to a wearisome one, if you will not suffer me to take out my sleep.

1720 A. Ramsay Poems 118 Lawrie he took out his Nap Upon a Mow of Pease.

1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. v. 107 The good woman of the house persuaded his antagonist to take out his nap.

1824 J. G. Lockhart Hist. Matthew Wald xxvii. 316 Having no concern with the judicial business, I took my sleep out.

1874 Volunteer Jan. 101 We were told you had been riding around the country all day, so we agreed to let you take your nap out.

1919 Windsor Mag. June 49/1 Up early every morning and..messing about in the fields when I want to take my sleep out, like the gentleman I am.

1838 Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Austral.) 1 Sept. 3 James Smith was fined 5s. for being drunk, and not paying, he was ordered to take it out in wood [i.e. to be put in the stocks].

1888 Bungendore Mirror 27 June 2 A woman was awarded a month's jail for obtaining goods under false pretences... She goes to Goulburn to ‘take it out’.

1908 Amador (Calif.) Ledger 21 Aug. 5/4 Both pleaded guilty, and were fined $20 each or 20 days in jail. They are both taking it out in jail.

1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger xvi. 176 George Benson told her briefly he would see her husband had a lawyer. He would probably get a month at the most and he'd better ‘take it out’.

1965 E. C. Fry Tom Barker & I.W.W. 16 We wouldn't pay fines on principle; we always took it out in the nick.

1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox xxi. 158 P'r'aps you'd like to take it out on me, 'cos if yer would, yer know, why ony say so.

1873 Old & New Sept. 296/2 He must be a mean old critter that devil of hers, to take it out on the baby.

1903 ‘C. E. Merriman’ Lett. from Son vi. 72 Milligan..came around to take your cussing of him out on me.

1958 Daily Sketch 2 June 12/6 You may be irritable at work, but don't take it out on your colleagues.

1967 Listener 11 May 611/2 The country took out its frustrations on Congress.

1994 E. Danticat Breath, Eyes, Memory iv. xxviii. 182 I was having an anxiety attack and I took it out on those clothes.

2001 H. Holt Delay of Execution (2002) xi. 123 I shouldn't have taken it out on you when it was all Felicity's fault!

1910 Evening News (Sydney) 3 Jan. 2/2 Eric at the distance looked like taking out the prize.

1976 Australian 15 July 2 Helen Morse..takes out the Australian Film Institute's top actress award tomorrow night.

1977 N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. i. 6/8 The Games we play..can't..end, till Someone takes them out.

1984 Canberra Times 18 Dec. 9 She also took out prizes for leadership, academic performance, peace administration, military skills and military history.

2013 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 30 Jan. 7 Bell is the first female New Zealand-born artist to take out the award and joins a prestigious roll of winners.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 750/1 I take out a writyng, I coppy a mater of a boke, je copie.

1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount vi. f. 116^v The mouldes beynge colde, take out handsomelye the medalles.

1573 Treat. Arte of Limming 11 A pretie deuise to take out the true forme & proporcion of any letter, knott, flower, Image, or other worke.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 300 I am glad I haue found this napkin,..I'le ha the worke taine out. View more context for this quotation

1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. at Extract To abstract, or take out a writing..Extraire, prendre, ou tirer quelque chose d'un écrit.

1711 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1761) II. 693 They ordained the bonds to be given in to the register, and either party to take out extracts on their own charges.

1792 Viner's Gen. Abridgm. Law & Equity (ed. 2) XII. 123 The copy which the defendant had taken out was given in evidence, for it is plain that the plaintiff knew the agreement, he having taken a copy thereof.

1835 Rep. Cases High Court of Chancery Ireland (1863) 370 This seems to assume the right of the officer to have an office copy taken out.

1884 J. A. H. Murray in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1883–4 516 The reading of all books over again, with the instructions, ‘Take out quotations for all words that do not strike you as rare, peculiar, or peculiarly used,’ would be of enormous service to us.

1907 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 12 533 The book of Genesis..is constructed by taking out passages from earlier books, and piecing these excerpts together like newspaper clippings.

1975 Times of India 14 Sept. 1/4 In many courts lawyers are supplying paper in order to take out copies of the record of evidence and judgment.

1997 S. S. Gadkari Office Managem. for Public Admin. xv. 103 The matter to be duplicated has either to be typed on a stencil or etched with a pointed pen when one has to take out copies of a figure or a diagram.

?1775 S. Horsely in B. Donne Ess. Trigonom. iv. i. 62 Take out the Logarithms of the Heights of the Barometer..from a Table which has them to 7 decimal Places.

1787 J. Bettesworth Syst. Naval Math. 195 Proceed with the differences to take out the quantities from the small table.

1881 Times 10 Nov. 4/2 The surveyor employed..to take out the quantities on the architect's plan—that is, to estimate the quantities of materials and labour which will be required to carry out the proposed plans.

1896 Daily News 5 Aug. 9/5 The plans of the buildings..will be now submitted to the quantity surveyor, with a view to the quantities being taken out.

1904 Builder 8 Oct. 371/3 Messrs. Fowler and Hugman were appointed to take out the quantities of the proposed additional buildings at Tooting Bec Asylum.

1920 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Sept. 428 In certain districts it is an admitted practice for Architects who take out the quantities themselves to be paid for them through the builder.

2009 A. Jennings Old Rectory i. vii. 121 When he built his first house he took out the quantities himself and took satisfaction in having only two bricks left on completion.

1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. K.iii^v He shuld..take out that whiche they taught well.

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 31/2 in Chron. I He must turne the leafe, and take out a new lesson.

1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxix. sig. F6^v He hath taken out as many lessons of the world, as dayes.

1665 R. Boyle Disc. ii. ii, in Occas. Refl. sig. C1^v From Ethical or Theological Composures, to take out Lessons that may improve the Mind.

1728 H. Bridges tr. M. de Cervantes Coll. Select Novels vi. 319 Tho' the Day began to break, Lewis would take out a Lesson not to loose Time.

1586 S. Bredwell Detection E. Glouers Hereticall Confection 120 Your teacher since that hath taken you out a contrarie lesson, if you marke it well.

1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. iii. sig. H I dare doe more then this, if a bee a the true Court cut; Ile take him out a lesson worth the learning.

1642 Strangling Great Turk in Harl. Misc. (1745) IV. 37 The Discipline of War must take you out other Lessons of Fury.

1604 S. Daniel Vision 12 Goddesses sig. A9 The Graces againe sang to the Musicke of the Temple, and prepared to take out the Lords to daunce.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iv. 98 I were vnmannerly to take you out, And not to kisse you. View more context for this quotation

1665 S. Pepys Diary 13 Apr. (1972) VI. 79 When the company begin to dance, I came away, lest I should be taken out.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xvi. 127 The Earl took me out: But we had hardly done, when..he and all but my cousins and Emily, called out for Sir Charles to dance with me.

1772 Town & Country Mag. Jan. 15/2 A gentleman was taken with her figure, took her out to dance, and..hinted an inclination to be more particularly acquainted with her.

1822 R. Edridge Scrinium II. 32 The little thing is so set up now she has been led about the room by my Lord, that she thinks no untitled hand worthy to take her out.

1866 Catholic World Mar. 819/2 He tould me, Miss Winny, that he was to take you out for the first dance yourself.

1903 Pall Mall Mag. July 312/2 ‘Monsieur de Boduel, you shall lead me to dance if you will.’ ‘Madam, I shall.’ He took her out with no more ceremony, and acquitted himself gaily.

1952 M. Laski Village ii. 41 Delighted to see you honouring our festivities, young lady. May I ask your permission to take you out for the first dance.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. xiii. 113 When a Matter can't be made up, as in Case of a Blow, the sooner you take him out the better.

1798 Scots Mag. July 341/2 A person had reduced his pistol to so great a certainty, that at the distance of ten yards he could snuff his candle: this, however, did not prevent a very bulky man from taking him out.

1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II. xxi. 253 I have fought a duel, too. A Yankee Doodle got it into his head that he might be impertinent to Adelaide; so I took him out and shot him.

1853 Peterson's Mag. Oct. 196/2 Supper was announced, and Philip took me out.

1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children ii. xx. 240 It was of course contrived at dinner that Lord Popplecourt should take out Lady Mary.

1905 J. H. Choate Let. 27 Jan. in E. S. Martin Life J. H. Choate (1920) II. viii. 272 The King took Mama out to dinner.

1913 in C. Seymour Intimate Papers Col. House (1926) I. vii. 188 He considered taking a duchess or royalty out to dinner was hard sledding.

1692 J. Dryden All for Love (new ed.) Pref. sig. b3^v He took out his laughter which he had stiffled.

1697 G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemblies 6 This sort seldom frequent the Church, if there be no Sermon, nor care they for the Prayers at all..; but they will take care to come before the Text is taken out, hear as Criticks, and Judges of what is said; and then they go home and Repeat, Censure and Comment, as they think the Preacher deserves.

1855 in Contrib. Hist. Soc. Montana (1940) X. 137 I took out in order to give them the slip.

1896 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 355/1 Out jumps four men and took out up the road as tight as they could go.

1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 310 They'll have to hitch up and take out to get home by midnight.

1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling i. 11 How come you to take out such a fur piece?

2008 J. A. Smith Assassination Arrow xii. 84 Clovis took out up the hill as fast as he could go.

1865 ‘M. Twain’ in N.Y. Sat. Press 18 Nov. 249/3 He set the frog down and took out after that feller, but he never ketched him.

1923 Boys' Life Sept. 16/3 Suppose those men take out after us, they can catch up with us, easy.

1954 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 8 Dec. 30/2 The soon to be eclipsed Senator..took out after the President personally. The senator feels the President is personally responsible for his troubles.

1990 P. Matthiessen Killing Mister Watson (1991) 269 She screeched at Cox for a yeller-bellied dog, and Cox grabbed up his gun and took out after her.

2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 June a17 The sort of mass law-breaking not seen since Richard Nixon took out after commies, liberals..and, of course, leakers.