v.
1.choose and follow
2.take up and practice as one's own
3.take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
4.take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
5.take into one's family
6.put into dramatic form
7.take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
Idiom of the Day
knock (someone) over with a feather
to surprise someone by something extraordinary
It could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw my friend on TV.