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单词 to take up house
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to take up house
c. transitive. Originally and chiefly Scottish. to take up house: †to take or rent a house (obsolete); to set up house; to become a householder.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > inhabit house
to hold or keep householdc1425
housec1440
to keep house1523
to take up housec1600
c1600 D. Moysie Mem. Affairs Scotl. (1830) 79 Quwhairvpon the Kingis Majestie..immediatlie tuik vp house in Leithe.
1606 Haddington Burgh Rec. 3 Jan. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Plant The multitude of beggars..dois..incress..be incoming of pure folkis..& takin up hows & planting thame selfis as inhabitants of the toun.
1612 Shetland Act in Scotsman 29 Jan. (1886) 7/2 It sall not be lesum for servile persones not worth..72 punds Scottis to tak up houssis.
1761 tr. Frederician Code I. i. iii. iv. 239 When children, happening to marry, or take up house, shall separate themselves from their father with his consent, he shall deliver to them their fortune.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 13/1 He was unwilling to incur the expense of taking up house.
1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist i. 2 John Edward and his wife ‘took up house’ in the Green, one of the oldest quarters of the city.
1923 Times 5 Mar. 15/3 She returned to the Highlands when a comparatively old woman, and took up house in Tomonie, five miles from Fortwilliam.
1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles xx. 160 There was a shortage of servants at this period, partly caused by their getting married and taking up house with nothing to live on.
2010 Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois) 16 Apr. 10 Birds and other small animals often take up house in chimneys, and this may go unnoticed by the human residents.
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