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Definition of Take to be
1. Verb. Look on as or consider. "He is reputed to be intelligent"
Generic synonyms: Believe, Conceive, Consider, Think
Derivative terms: Reputation, Reputation, Reputation, Repute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take To Be
Literary usage of Take to be
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"... whether the law be prior or subsequent in the date to that of the contract;
and this 1 take to be the only point really decided in the case alluded to. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"American views of society, we take to be by far the most notable of the "Dashes."
The judgment of foreigners has been called, by a happy blunder of logic, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Scaffold and shelf I take to be closely-allied expressions, nul I would ultimately
derive them both from the Old Northern ..."
4. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"What I see, I know to be so, by the evidence of the thing itself: what I believe,
I take to be so upon the testimony of another. But this testimony I must ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"... whether the law be prior or subsequent in the date to that of the contract;
and this 1 take to be the only point really decided in the case alluded to. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"American views of society, we take to be by far the most notable of the "Dashes."
The judgment of foreigners has been called, by a happy blunder of logic, ..."
7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Scaffold and shelf I take to be closely-allied expressions, nul I would ultimately
derive them both from the Old Northern ..."
8. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"What I see, I know to be so, by the evidence of the thing itself: what I believe,
I take to be so upon the testimony of another. But this testimony I must ..."
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