Definition of Saint beda

1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Saint Beda

Saint Andrew's Day
Saint Andrew's cross
Saint Andrew's crosses
Saint Andrew the Apostle
Saint Anselm
Saint Anthony's cross
Saint Anthony's crosses
Saint Anthony's dance
Saint Anthony's fire
Saint Anthony's fires
Saint Athanasius
Saint Augustine
Saint Baeda
Saint Barbara
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Beda
Saint Bede
Saint Benedict
Saint Bernard
Saint Bernards
Saint Boniface
Saint Bride
Saint Bridget
Saint Brigid
Saint Bruno
Saint Catharines
Saint Charles
Saint Christopher
Saint Christopher-Nevis
Saint Cloud

Literary usage of Saint beda

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

1. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England Comprising Laws Enacted Under the by England, Great Britain, Benjamin Thorpe, Great Britain Record Commission (1840)
"... so as was Saint Jerome the priest, and Saint Anastasias the priest, whom Saint Basil the bishop made known", and saint beda the priest, whose bones rest ..."

2. Of the Church, Five Books by Richard Field (1849)
"saint beda, in his sermon upon Missus est, (and the same is in the ordinary Gloss), saith, that " the Holy Spirit coming upon the virgin freed her mind from ..."

3. Yule and Christmas: Their Place in the Germanic Year by Alexander Tille (1899)
"There was also a monastery called after that saint (Beda, Hist. Ecd., IV., xvi. : "Et abbas monasteri! beati Martini, . . ." and "corpusque eius ab amicis ..."

4. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England: Comprising Laws Enacted Under the by Great Britain, Benjamin Thorpe (1840)
"... so as was Saint Jerome the priest, and Saint Anastasius the priest, whom Saint Basil the bishop made known*, and saint beda the priest, whose bones rest ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1880)
"... or the most ordinary recoveries from illness, were easily magnified into special interpositions of the local saint. Beda relates these events in good ..."

6. England Under the Angevin Kings by Norgate, Kate (1887)
"He took the English book that saint beda made ; another he took, in Latin, that Saint Albin made, and the fair Austin, who brought baptism in hither ..."

7. The Wonders of the Little World; Or, A General History of Man: Displaying ...by Nathaniel Wanley, William Johnston by Nathaniel Wanley, William Johnston (1806)
"... was given him : it being a middle betwixt plain Beda, which they thought too little, and saint beda, which they thought too much while he was living. 7. ..."

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