Take Up With Meaning

(archaic) To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with

Example: Used other than as an idiom: see take,‎ up,‎ take up,‎ with.
  He took them up with him on his next trip to the mountains.
  He took up painting with his wife.
  He took up the overpayment with his supplier.
To form a close relationship with (someone).
  I hear that John has taken up with Jane.
To become interested in (something).
2001, Vincent Curcio, Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius, page 112:
  It seems, then, that automobiles and automobiling were on Walter Chrysler's mind for a long time before he took up with this legendary Locomobile