Bedew vs Bede - What's the difference?
bedew | bede |
To make wet with or as if with dew.
* 1885:
* 1836 , (Eliza Cook), ""
*:I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare
*:To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?
*:I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ;
*:I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.
* 1831 , (Mary Shelley),
*:Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.
prayer, request, supplication
* 1875 March, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science , Volume 15 Number 87:
* 1885 , Richard F. Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night :
* 2008 , Time to Ditch St. George :
* 2011 , Where Did Beaded Flowers Come From? :
order, command
rosary
pray, offer, proffer
* 1500 , The Towneley Plays :
request, demand, order, command, forbid
proclaim, declare
* (rfdate) Le Mort Arthur :
present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
* 1450 , Merlin :
As a verb bedew
is to make wet with or as if with dew.As an adjective bede is
motherless.bedew
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Verb
(en verb)- While sympathetic tears
- My cheeks bedew
Derived terms
* bedewedAnagrams
*bede
English
Alternative forms
* beadEtymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl). Cognate with (etyl) gebed and bede, (etyl) Gebet.Noun
(en-noun)- Thus originated the alms-(or bede -) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England.
- By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede!
- because miracles had frequently been done at his burial-place, even at the bede -house where he was buried.
- Because of the length of the original rosary, it became customary to pay someone, usually a resident of an almshouse, to recite the prayers. These people were referred to as bede women or men, and it was they who made the first bead flowers.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
- Sir, a bargan bede I you.
- A turnement were best to bede .
- They of londone boden hem to ben lyht of herte.