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  • noun prayer, request, supplication
  • noun order, command
  • noun rosary
  • verb pray, offer, proffer
  • verb request, demand, order, command, forbid
  • verb proclaim, declare
  • verb present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
  • noun mining A kind of pickaxe.

Etymologies

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From Middle English bēden ("to pray, offer, proffer, request, demand, order, command, forbid; proclaim, declare; present, counsel, advise, exhort"), from Old English bēodian ("to command, decree, summon, banish, declare, inform, announce, proclaim; threaten, offer, proffer, give, grant, surrender"), from Proto-Germanic *beudanan, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian biada, Old Saxon biodan (Dutch bieden), Old High German biotan (German bieten), Old Norse bjóða (Swedish bjuda ("command, show")), Gothic *𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (bindan) (attested in compounds). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek πευθεσθαι ("ask for"), Sanskrit बोधयित ("wake"), Old Church Slavonic бъдети (Russian будить (budit’, "wake")), Lithuanian budeti ("awake").

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From Middle English bēde ("prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead"), from Old English gebed ("prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance"), from Proto-Germanic. Cognate with Dutch bede, German Gebet.

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