bestead
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bestead¹
Rhymes with -ɛd
Where it comes from
From be- + stead (“to support, help”).
verb besteads · besteading · besteaded · bestead · bested
- To help, assist. She indifferently makes profit of all; even errours and dreames, doe profitably beſteade-her, as a loyall matter, to bring-vs vnto ſafetie and contentment.
- To profit; benefit; serve; avail. 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
Similar: lend a hand
bestead²
Rhymes with -ɛd
Where it comes from
From Middle English bisteden; equivalent to be- + stead (“place”).
verb besteads · besteading · besteaded
- To take the place of; replace.
bestead³
Rhymes with -ɛd
Where it comes from
From Middle English bistad; equivalent to be- + Old Norse staddr (“placed”), later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.
adjective bested
- Placed (in a given situation); beset. "I was indeed hard bestead, sir," burst in Oliver.
- Disposed mentally; affected. sorrowfully bestead
- Provided; furnished.
