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Baeda

American  
[bee-duh] / ˈbi də /

noun

  1. Saint. Bede, Saint.


Baeda British  
/ ˈbiːdə /

noun

  1. the Latin name for (Saint) Bede

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The last words of the passage quoted above from Baeda suggest this explanation in the case of the Britons.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler

In his 'Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation,' Baeda was at once the founder of medieval history and the first English historian.

From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous

The First English Prose.—The first writer of English prose was Baeda, or, as he is generally called, the Venerable Bede.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

To them, as the historians of the fast approaching Christian future will recognise, he was made what the Saxon Boniface had become to the Germans, or the Northumbrian Baeda and Wyclif to the English.

From Life of William Carey by George Smith

In treatises compiled as text-books for his scholars, Baeda threw together all that the world had then accumulated in astronomy and meteorology, in physics and music, in philosophy, grammar, rhetoric, arithmetic, medicine.

From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous

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