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verb
Bestead  v. t.  (past & past part. bestead or bested, also obs. bestad)  
1.
To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place. (Only in p. p.) "They shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:... and curse their king and their God." "Many far worse bestead than ourselves."
2.
To put in peril; to beset. Note: (Only in p. p.)
3.
To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail.





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"Bestead" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a lineage That each for each doth fast engage; In old Bassora's schools, I seemed Hermit vowed to books and gloom,— Ill-bestead for gay bridegroom. I was by thy touch redeemed; When thy meteor glances came, We talked at large of worldly fate, ...
— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... whose life begins where school ends; and the battles we fought with our rivals, and the toys that we shared with our playmates, and the names that we carved, high or low, on the wall above our desks,—will they so much bestead us hereafter? As new fates crowd upon us, can they more than pass through the memory with a smile or a sigh? Look back to thy schooldays ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... As one bestead with gossamer-thread I pluckt at my eyes To catch again the glory shed, The hope, the load, the prize; But no more hands invisible Held like a shade o'er me, And there seem'd little enough to tell My ...
— The Village Wife's Lament • Maurice Hewlett
... in the Hyer family to make the best of things; they had always possessed this virtue to such an extent, that they suffered from it as from a vice. There was hardly to be found in all Southern Tennessee a more contented, shiftless, ill-bestead family than theirs. But there was no grumbling. Whatever went wrong, whatever was lacking, it was "jest like aour luck," they said, and did nothing, or next to nothing, about it. Good-natured, affectionate, humorous people; after all, they got more comfort out ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson


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