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Definition of Saint Beda
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735).
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Generic synonyms: Doctor, Doctor Of The Church, Historian, Historiographer, Saint, Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saint Beda
Literary usage of Saint Beda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England Comprising Laws Enacted Under the by England, Great Britain, Benjamin Thorpe, Great Britain Record Commission (1840)
"... so as was Saint Jerome the priest, and Saint Anastasias the priest, whom Saint
Basil the bishop made known", and Saint Beda the priest, whose bones rest ..."
2. Of the Church, Five Books by Richard Field (1849)
"Saint Beda, in his sermon upon Missus est, (and the same is in the ordinary
Gloss), saith, that " the Holy Spirit coming upon the virgin freed her mind from ..."
3. Yule and Christmas: Their Place in the Germanic Year by Alexander Tille (1899)
"There was also a monastery called after that saint (Beda, Hist. Ecd., IV., xvi.
: "Et abbas monasteri! beati Martini, . . ." and "corpusque eius ab amicis ..."
4. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England: Comprising Laws Enacted Under the by Great Britain, Benjamin Thorpe (1840)
"... so as was Saint Jerome the priest, and Saint Anastasius the priest, whom Saint
Basil the bishop made known*, and Saint Beda the priest, whose bones rest ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1880)
"... or the most ordinary recoveries from illness, were easily magnified into
special interpositions of the local saint. Beda relates these events in good ..."
6. England Under the Angevin Kings by Norgate, Kate (1887)
"He took the English book that Saint Beda made ; another he took, in Latin, that
Saint Albin made, and the fair Austin, who brought baptism in hither ..."
7. The Wonders of the Little World; Or, A General History of Man: Displaying ...by Nathaniel Wanley, William Johnston by Nathaniel Wanley, William Johnston (1806)
"... was given him : it being a middle betwixt plain Beda, which they thought too
little, and Saint Beda, which they thought too much while he was living. 7. ..."
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