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Definition of Baeda
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735).
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Generic synonyms: Doctor, Doctor Of The Church, Historian, Historiographer, Saint, Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baeda
Literary usage of Baeda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1892)
"... the writer on prosody, and the monk and polyhistor Baeda (Beda venerabilis),
whose erudition rose above the standard of his time, ..."
2. Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and Readers by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (1900)
"... a miserable life among the woods, rocks, and mountains, with scarcely enough
food to support life, and expecting every moment to be their last. Baeda ..."
3. Beacon Lights of History by John Lord, Alexander Stevenson Twombly (1883)
"These were Isadore, Caedmon, and Baeda. The first was a monk from Tarsus, whom
the Pope dispatched in the year 668 to Britain as Archbishop of Canterbury. ..."