bede
Prayer, request, supplication
Noun
- Prayer, request, supplication
- Thus originated the alms-(or bede-) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England. - 1875 March, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume 15, number 87:
- By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede! - 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the...
- […] because miracles had frequently been done at his burial-place, even at the bede-house where he was buried. - 2008, Time to Ditch St. George:
- Rosary.
- In Pilgrimage from towne to towne: With offring and with Drilon: To them they bable on their bedes: That they may helpe them in their nedes. - 1566, Sir David Lindsay, A Dialogue betweene Experience and a Courtier:
- Or doe they use their Bedes alone to finde That tale of Paters which they seldome minde? - 1642, William Prynne, A Pleasant Purge, for a Roman Catholike, to Evacuate His Evill Humours, page 20:
- Towards a rude hermitage he made To fetch the priest unto his need, To bury her and say her bede - 1870, William Morris, The Earthly Paradise:
Origin
From Middle English bēde (“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), from Old English ġebed (“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bed, from Proto-Germanic *bedą (“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.
Forms
Verb
- pray, offer, proffer
- Sir, a bargan bede I you, / by it if ye will - 15th c., “Conspiracio [The Conspiracy]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society...
- request, demand, order, command, forbid
- proclaim, declare
- A turnement were best to bede. - 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July...
- present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
- They of londone […] boden hem to ben lyht of herte. - 1450, Merlin:
Origin
From Middle English bēden (“to offer”), from Old English bēodan, from Proto-West Germanic *beudan, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian biada, Old Saxon biodan (Low German bieden, beden), Dutch bieden, Old High German biotan (German bieten), Old Norse bjóða (Swedish bjuda (“command, show”)), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (anabiudan). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek πεύθομαι (peúthomai, “ask for”), Sanskrit बोधयति (bodhayati, “wake”), Old Church Slavonic бъдѣти (bŭděti) (Russian будить (buditʹ, “wake”)), Lithuanian budeti (“awake”). See also bid.