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third-person singular simple present takes root, present participle taking root, simple past took root, past participle taken root
(intransitive, literally) To grow roots into soil. examples
(intransitive, figuratively) To become established, to take hold. quotations examples
You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii]