Bede vs Sede - What's the difference?
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As an adjective bede is motherless. As a noun sede is .
bede English
Alternative forms
* bead
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl). Cognate with (etyl) gebed and bede, (etyl) Gebet.
Noun
( en-noun)
prayer, request, supplication
* 1875 March, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science , Volume 15 Number 87:
- Thus originated the alms-(or bede -) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England.
* 1885 , Richard F. Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night :
- By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede!
* 2008 , Time to Ditch St. George :
- because miracles had frequently been done at his burial-place, even at the bede -house where he was buried.
* 2011 , Where Did Beaded Flowers Come From? :
- 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.
order, command
rosary
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . See also (l).
Verb
pray, offer, proffer
* 1500 , The Towneley Plays :
- Sir, a bargan bede I you.
request, demand, order, command, forbid
proclaim, declare
* (rfdate) Le Mort Arthur :
- A turnement were best to bede .
present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
* 1450 , Merlin :
- They of londone boden hem to ben lyht of herte.
Etymology 3
Noun
( en noun)
(mining) A kind of pickaxe.
References
( Webster 1913)
* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1911
* Middle English Dictionary
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See also
* supersede
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