| 单词 | to bid a bead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bid a bead c. to bid a bead: to offer a prayer; hence beads bidding, the saying of prayers. Also to say one's beads. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > pray [verb (intransitive)] i-bid971 bidc1175 ure?c1225 prayc1300 to bid a beada1325 to say one's beadsa1325 tellc1450 to tell or count one's beads1641 society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > action of or offering of bidding of prayersc1175 orison?c1250 bidding1297 prayerc1300 beads biddinga1325 sacrificec1595 presentation1597 pray1654 davening1947 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2981 Moyses bad is bede. c1330 Assump. Virg. 876 To ihesu þei bede a bede. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. (1871) II. 420 How þei shulen bidde her bedis. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 225 He travailled besiliche in bedes byddynge. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idolatry iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 236 For the which they pray in their beads bidding. 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 11 The beades that we will bid shall be sweet kisses. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) To say our Bedes, is to say our prayers.] 1681 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 2nd Pt. 55 All the people said their beads in a general silence. 1764 T. Gray Let. 19 Nov. in Corr. (1971) II. 852 Bidding his beads for the souls of his benefactors. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 152 To fetch the priest..To bury her and say her bede. < as lemmas |
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