Definition of Besteaded

1. Verb. (simple past of bestead) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Besteaded

1. bestead [v] - See also: bestead

Lexicographical Neighbors of Besteaded

best thing since sliced bread
best thing since sliced pan
bestad
bestadde
bestain
bestained
bestains
bestand
bestar
bestarred
bestarring
bestars
bestatin
bestay
bestead
besteaded (current term)
besteading
besteads
besteal
bestealing
besteals
bested
bestep
bestest
bestial
bestialise
bestialities
bestialization
bestialize

Literary usage of Besteaded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southern Literary Messenger (1859)
"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 ..."

2. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"... yea, than the swallow itself, (if Pliny say true,)J though all their ^celerity besteaded them not here to escape the nets of the fishermen. ..."

3. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... yea, than the swallow itself, if Pliny say true h ; though all their celerity besteaded them not here to escape the nets of the fishermen. ..."

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