transitive. To treat or take (a person) as a guide, leader, or master in matters of belief, behaviour, practice, etc.; to accept the authority or…

transitive. To take (a person) as one's guide, leader, or example; to follow as a disciple or imitator. Obsolete.

To imitate, copy. To follow the example of (a person). Obsolete.

to take witness by (also of): to take example by.

transitive. Chiefly with from (also †of, †at): to obtain or derive (a material or immaterial thing) deliberately from a particular source; to copy…

figurative. To render oneself indebted for; to make temporary use of (something not one's own); used, e.g. of temporal possessions, with notion of…

transitive. To imitate, mimic; to follow or copy the example of. Obsolete.