take check

verb

take check

verb

1

Idiomatic, Obsolete To take offence.

Say I shou'd wed her, wou'd not my wife subjects Take check, and think it strange?1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

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