take orders

English

Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of take holy orders.
    • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 4:
      "What the deuce are you doing in that rig-out?" "I - I have taken orders," said the curate hurriedly.
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