Definition of Betides

1. Adverb. At any early period. ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of betide) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Betides

1. betide [v] - See also: betide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Betides

bethroth
bethrow
beths
bethumb
bethumbed
bethumbs
bethump
bethumped
bethumping
bethumps
bethwack
bethwacks
betid
betide
betided
betides (current term)
betidest
betideth
betiding
betie
betight
betimber
betime
betimed
betimely
betimes
betiming
betine
betined
beting

Literary usage of Betides

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

1. The History of the Life of King Henry the Second: And the Age in which He by George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1777)
"... prince's coronation, John of Oxford and the betides the mandate concerning the young archdeacons of ..."

2. The Novelist's Magazine (1784)
"... which a parent feck, that are unknown to a!l the world betides. to give them, betimes, ... betides ..."

3. The Mathematical Repository: Containing Analytical Solutions of Five Hundred by James Dodson (1748)
"20- u — • 36 But betides that, one or both the blots may be hit by the two dice at length ; and the probability of that, is different, according to the ..."

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