1. Business imposed by another, often a definite quantity or amount of labor. Each man has his task. When he has performed his task, his time is his own. Exo 5.
2. Business; employment.
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks.
3. Burdensome employment.
To take to task, to reprove; to reprimand; as, to take one to task for idleness.
, v.t.
1. To impose a task; to assign to one a definite amount of business or labor.
2. To burden with some employment; to require to perform.
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.