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Alluring; attractive.
- […] a Proteus-Devil appeared unto him, changing into Shapes, but fixing himself at last into the form of a Fair Woman. Strange, that Satan (so subtil in making his Temptations most taking) should preferre this form […]
- His speech from the hustings was very original, and therefore very taking.
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Infectious; contagious.obsolete
- All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones, You taking airs, with lameness!
- Come not near me, For I am yet too taking for your company.
taking
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The act by which something is taken.countableuncountable
- At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting.
- Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.
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A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.uncountable
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A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).uncountable
- What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?
- “And, dear miss, you won’t harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o’ your takings.”
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Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).CommonwealthIrelandUK
- Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week.
- Count the shop's takings.
syn. acquisition · taking
ant. bestowal · restitution
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present participle and gerund of takeform-ofgerundparticiple
- Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.