KJV Dictionary - undertake
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UNDERTAKE
UNDERTA'KE, v.t. pret. undertook; pp. undertaken. under and take.
1. To engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform. When I undertook this work, I had a very inadequate knowledge of the extent of my labors.
2. To covenant or contract to perform or execute. A man undertakes to erect a house, or to make a mile of canal, when he enters into stipulations for that purpose.
3. To attempt; as when a man undertakes what he cannot perform.
4. To assume a character. Not in use.
5. To engage with; to attack.
Your lordship should not undertake every companion you offend. Not in use.
6. To have the charge of.
- Who undertakes you to your end. Not in use.
UNDERTA'KE, v.i.
1. To take upon or assume any business or province.
O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me. Is. 38.
2. To venture; to hazard. They dare not undertake.
3. To promise; to be bound.
I dare undertake they will not lose their labor.
To undertake for, to be bound; to become surety for.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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