5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Undertake \Un`der*take"\, v. t. [imp. {Undertook}; p. p. {Undertaken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Undertaking}.] [Under + take.] 1. To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. [1913 Webster] To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract. [1913 Webster] I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm. [1913 Webster] And he was not right fat, I undertake. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I dare undertake they will not lose their labor. --Woodward. [1913 Webster] 4. To assume, as a character. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. To engage with; to attack. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offense to. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. To have knowledge of; to hear. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 7. To take or have the charge of. [Obs.] "Who undertakes you to your end." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Keep well those that ye undertake. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Undertook \Un`der*took"\, imp. of {Undertake}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: undertook See {undertake} From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: undertake v 1: enter upon an activity or enterprise [syn: {set about}, {attempt}] 2: accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task" [syn: {tackle}, {take on}] 3: promise to do or accomplish; "guarantee to free the prisoners" [syn: {guarantee}] 4: enter into a contractual arrangement [syn: {contract}] 5: accept as a charge [syn: {take in charge}] [also: {undertook}, {undertaken}] From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]: UNDERTOOK. Assumed; promised. 2. This is a technical word which ought to be inserted in every declaration of assumpsit, charging that the defendant undertook to perform the promise which is the foundation of the suit; and this though the promise be founded on a legal liability, or would be implied in evidence. Bac. Ab Assumpsit, F; 1 Chit. Pl. 88, note p.
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