bestead

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To help, assist.

   • She indifferently makes profit of all; even errours and dreames, doe profitably beſteade-her, as a loyall matter, to bring-vs vnto ſafetie and contentment.
   • And they ſhall paſſe thꝛough it, hardly beſtead and hungry: and it ſhall come to paſſe, that when they ſhall be hungry, they ſhall fret themſelues, and curſe their King, and their God, and looke vpward.
2. 2

   To profit

   To profit; benefit; serve; avail.

   • Abstract thought besteads immortality only in order that it may kill me as an individual being with an individual existence, and so make me immortal, pretty much in the same way as that famous physician in one of Holberg's plays,[…].
3. 3

   To take the place of

   To take the place of; replace.

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   1. 4

      Placed (in a given situation)

      Placed (in a given situation); beset.

      • "I was indeed hard bestead, sir," burst in Oliver.
   2. 5

      Disposed mentally

      Disposed mentally; affected.

      • sorrowfully bestead
   3. 6

      Provided

      Provided; furnished.

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• synonymlend a hand