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Bidding   /bˈɪdɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Bidding  n.  
1.
Command; order; a proclamation or notifying. "Do thou thy master's bidding."
2.
The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.


verb
Bid  v. t.  (past bade; past part. bidden, bid; pres. part. bidding)  
1.
To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically: To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).
2.
To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. "Neither bid him God speed." "He bids defiance to the gaping crowd."
3.
To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. (Mostly obs.) "Our banns thrice bid!"
4.
To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. "That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow." "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee." "I was bid to pick up shells."
5.
To invite; to call in; to request to come. "As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage."
To bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. (Obs.)
To bid defiance to, to defy openly; to brave.
To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.
Synonyms: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin.


Bid  v. i.  (past bade; past part. bidden, bid; pres. part. bidding)  
1.
To pray. (Obs.)
2.
To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.





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"Bidding" Quotes from Famous Books



... they had established themselves at a little table he developed further this gracious thought. "You are not even a doctor. But you are funny. Your notion of a humanity universally putting out the tongue and taking the pill from pole to pole at the bidding of a few solemn jokers is worthy of the prophet. Prophecy! What's the good of thinking of what will be!" He raised his glass. "To the destruction of what is," ...
— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad
... the Gray Cottage all this time because I knew that it was your wish that I should do so, and I have ever been guided by your wishes; but now Mrs. Blake is going away, and it would trouble me greatly if she were to leave without my bidding her good-bye.' ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... Before bidding a willing good-bye to the Dutch regime of the New Netherlands, it remains to tell the story of another colony, begun under happy auspices, but so short-lived that its rise and fall are a mere episode in the history ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon
... loving the idea of success for him like a triumph of nature; anon, with returning loyalty to her own family and sex, she trembled for Kirstie and the credit of the Elliotts. And again she had a vision of herself, the day over for her old-world tales and local gossip, bidding farewell to her last link with life and brightness and love; and behind and beyond, she saw but the blank butt-end where she must crawl to die. Had she then come to the lees? she, so great, so beautiful, with a heart as fresh as a girl's ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the street indicated, and afterward round this corner and that at the bidding of the man on the box until the ...
— The Light That Lures • Percy Brebner


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