bestead
1 Americanverb (used with object)
adjective
Etymology
Origin of bestead1
First recorded in 1575–85; be- + stead
Origin of bestead2
1300–50; Middle English bisted, bistad, equivalent to bi be- + sted, variant of stad placed < Old Norse staddr, past participle of stethja to place, derivative of stathr place
Example Sentences
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The fair, bright ribbon of the hours— A mountain brook bestead through flowers— Runs, a dear line, from you to you.
From Sonnets and Songs by Helen Hay Whitney
If I ain’t the worst bestead woman in the world!
From The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond
My poor child!" said the lady "you have been hardly bestead, I think.
From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
How little you bestead Or fill the fixéd mind with all your toys!
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
And he called to mind that great saying of Goll mac Morna when they were once sore bestead by a mighty host.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
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