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        "ˈəndərˌteɪk"
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        "From Middle English undertaken; equivalent to under- + take (after undernim)."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).\n1667,  John Milton,  “Book II”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, line 417-420:This said, he sat; and expectation heldHis look suspense, awaiting who appearedTo second, or oppose, or undertakeThe perilous attempt."
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              "mean": "(intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).\nHe undertook to exercise more in future.\nc. 1591–1592 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :  if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish usWith some few bands of chosen soldiers,I’ll undertake to land them on our coastAnd force the tyrant from his seat by war."
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              "mean": "(Britain, informal) To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.\nAntonym: overtake"
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              "mean": "(archaic, intransitive) To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.\n1387–1400,  Geoffrey Chaucer,  “(please specify the story)”, in  The Canterbury Tales, , →OCLC; republished in , editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , :     Iohn Reynes , 1542, →OCLC, line 289-291:As leene was his hors as is a rake,And he nas nat right fat, I undertake,But looked holwe and therto sobrely.(please add an English translation of this quote)\n1591 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :That is her ransom; I deliver her;And those two counties I will undertakeYour grace shall well and quietly enjoy.\n1695, John Woodward, An Essay towards a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, London: Richard Wilkin, Part 4, pp. 222-223,\n   if those Persons who are curious in collecting either Minerals, or the Shells, Teeth, or other Parts of Animal Bodies that have been buried in the Earth, do but search the Hills after Rains, and the Sea-Shores after Storms, I dare undertake they will not lose their Labour."
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              "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.\n1485,  Sir Thomas Malory,  “xxxvij”, in  Le Morte Darthur, book IX:there came fourty knyghtes to sire Darras    and they wold haue slayne sire Tristram and his two felawes  but sire Darras wold not suffre that but kepte them in pryson    So sire Tristram endured there grete payne  for sekenesse had vndertake hym  and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue(please add an English translation of this quote)"
            },
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              "mean": "(obsolete) To assume, as a character; to take on.\nc. 1595–1596 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Quince.    you must needs play Pyramus.Bottom. Well, I will undertake it."
            },
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              "mean": "(obsolete) To engage with; to attack, take on in a fight.\n1611 April (first recorded performance),  William Shakespeare,  “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to."
            },
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              "mean": "(obsolete) To have knowledge of; to hear.\n1596,  Edmund Spenser,  “Book V, Canto III”, in  The Faerie Queene. , London:     for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 34:Ne he his mouth would open unto wight,Untill that Guyon selfe unto him spake,And called Brigadore, (so was he hight,)Whose voice so soone as he did undertake,Eftsoones he stood as still as any stake,"
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              "mean": "(obsolete) To have or take charge of.\n1613 (date written),  William Shakespeare; ,  “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :To the water side I must conduct your grace;Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,Who undertakes you to your end."
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              "mean": "(Britain, informal) The passing of slower traffic on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.\nAntonym: overtake"
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