bede /biːd/verb 4noun 2forms 5 verb4 •pray, offer, profferSir, a bargan bede I you, / by it if ye will — 1897 •request, demand, order, command, forbid •proclaim, declareA turnement were best to bede. — 1889 •present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort noun2 •(no longer used) Prayer, request, supplicationThus originated the alms-(or bede-) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England. — 1875 •(no longer used) 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 formsbade · bode · boden · beding · bedes
