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bede
/bid/
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What does bede mean?
verb
- pray, offer, proffer
- request, demand, order, command, forbid
- proclaim, declare
More meanings (4)
verb
- present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
proper noun
- An English monk, historian and theologian from Northumbria who lived from c. 673 to 753, commonly known as the Venerable Bede.
noun
- (obsolete) Prayer, request, supplication
- (obsolete) Rosary.
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IPA pronunciation
/bid/
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On the other hand, Bede tells us the Irish could lend foreign students books, so plentiful were they.
In the eighth century a similar declaration was made in the north of Europe by another great Church authority, Bede.
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Adam Bede in one hand, a sketch-book in the other, lying on rugs under an awning, I enjoyed a very pleasant day.
And Gesner quotes Venerable Bede, to say, that in England there is an island called Ely, by reason of the innumerable number of Eels that breed in it.
The Venerable Bede has very clearly discussed and determined this doubtful point, as is related by that great compiler Gratian, the repeater of numerous authors, who is as confused in form as he was eager in collecting matter for his compilation.