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Definition of Besteaded
1. bestead [v] - See also: bestead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Besteaded
Literary usage of Besteaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger (1859)
"With forty sous which remained, he went to a low gambling house, where fortune,
or something surer to the skilful practitioner, so well besteaded him that ..."
2. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"... yea, than the swallow itself, (if Pliny say true,)J though all their ^celerity
besteaded them not here to escape the nets of the fishermen. ..."
3. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... yea, than the swallow itself, if Pliny say true h ; though all their celerity
besteaded them not here to escape the nets of the fishermen. ..."
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