To take up with Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. . (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain fare .
    "In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities." I. Watts.
    (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. Obs. L'Estrange.

Webster 1913