Bedid vs Bedrid - What's the difference?
bedid | bedrid |
(bedo)
(obsolete) To shut; make or put to.
(obsolete) To befoul; defile with ordure.
(obsolete) To adorn; ornament; garnish.
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(obsolete) bedridden
* Shakespeare
*{{quote-book, year=1891, author=Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, title=The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The 'old Gentleman in Oldham is Loyola, as described in Oldham's third satire on the Jesuits, when 'Summon'd together, all th' officious band The orders of their ' bedrid , chief attend.' }}
*{{quote-book, year=1669, author=Samuel Pepys, title=Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete, chapter=, edition=
, passage=In a letter from Pepys to his nephew Jackson, April 8th, 1700, there is a reference to the breaking out three years before his death of the wound caused by the cutting for the stone: "It has been my calamity for much the greatest part of this time to have been kept bedrid , under an evil so rarely known as to have had it matter of universal surprise and with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone, without hearing anything of it in all this time, should after more than 40 years' perfect cure, break out again." }}
As a verb bedid
is (bedo).As an adjective bedrid is
(obsolete) bedridden.bedid
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Verb
(head)bedo
English
Verb
bedrid
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Adjective
(-)- Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father.
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