take place

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To happen or to occur.

   • Unfortunately, the meeting never took place.
   • The wedding was to take place in the rose garden.
   • […] when sold and delivered up to their inhuman purchasers, a more heart-piercing scene cannot well take place.
2. 2

   To take precedence or priority.

   • I know him a notorious liar, / Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; / Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him, / That they take place, when virtue’s steely bones / Look bleak i’ the cold wind […]
3. 3

   To take effect

   To take effect; to prevail.

   • […] the moderate advice took place, and the people, upon the Kings engagement of soon remedying their miseries, return’d with blessings for him […]
   • If your Doctrine takes place I vvou'd fain knovv vvhat can be the advantage of a great fortune, vvhich all mankind ſo eagerly purſue?
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   1. 4

      To sit in a particular location, take one's place.

      • King Henry VIII takes place under the cloth of state; Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius sit under him as judges. Queen Katharine takes place some distance from King Henry VIII.
      • Cedric himself coldly nodded in answer to the Jew's repeated salutations, and signed to him to take place at the lower end of the table, where, however, no one offered to make room for him.

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