Besteals vs Besteads - What's the difference?
besteals | besteads |
(besteal)
(obsolete) To steal, move stealthily.
(bestead)
To help, assist.
*, I.40:
*:even errours and dreames, doe profitably bestead her, as a loyall matter, to bring us unto safetie and contentment.
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*1956 , Haïm Hazaz, Mori Sa'id :
*:"No, but you must tell me, no matter what; perhaps I may give you good counsel and bestead you in your trouble."
To profit; benefit; serve; avail.
*1859 , Southern literary messenger: Volume 28:
*:With forty sous which remained, he went to a low gambling house, where fortune, or something surer to the skilful practitioner, so well besteaded him that he was able to clothe himself decently preparatory to entering Frascati's, the fashionable hell of Paris—a den of abomination early suppressed on the accession of Louis Philippe to the French throne.
*2007 , Miguel De Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life :
*:Abstract thought besteads immortality only in order that it may kill me as an individual being with an individual existence, and so make me immortal, pretty much in the same way as that famous physician in one of Holberg's plays,.
(archaic) Placed (in a given situation); beset.
* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Jeanie Gould Lincoln, title=An Unwilling Maid, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I was indeed hard bestead , sir," burst in Oliver. " }}
(obsolete) Disposed mentally; affected.
(obsolete) Provided; furnished.
As verbs the difference between besteals and besteads
is that besteals is third-person singular of besteal while besteads is third-person singular of bestead.besteals
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*besteal
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* *besteads
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(head)bestead
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Etymology 1
From .Alternative forms
* bestedVerb
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*Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From .Etymology 3
From , later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.Alternative forms
*Adjective
(-)citation
- sorrowfully bested