take check

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English

Verb

take check (third-person singular simple present takes check, present participle taking check, simple past took check, past participle taken check)

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